In connection with the decision in January in South Korea over the comfort women issue, which ordered the Japanese government to compensate, Korean courts said that seizing the Japanese government's assets to secure court costs was "international. It turned out that he had issued a decision stating that "there is a risk of violating the law" and that "there is no court fee that can be collected from Japan."
In January, the Seoul Central District Court issued a ruling ordering the Japanese government to compensate for the comfort women issue, but the Japanese government states that sovereign states are not subject to the jurisdiction of other countries, international law. The decision was finalized because he did not attend the trial and did not appeal because the complaint should be dismissed from the above principle of "sovereign immunity".
The Government of Japan has called for the Korean side to take appropriate measures, saying that it clearly violates international law and the agreement between the Japanese and Korean governments.
It was discovered that the Seoul Central District Court issued a decision on the 29th of last month in connection with this trial.
The decision mentions the 1965 Japan-Korea Claims Agreement and the 2015 Japan-Korea Agreement on the Comfort Women Issue, and seizing the assets of the Japanese government to secure court costs "violates international law. There is a risk of doing so. "
He concludes that if the foreclosure is carried out, it will "provide serious consequences such as hindering the trust of the judiciary" and "confirmed that there is no court fee that can be collected from the Japanese government."
This decision makes a decision on the seizure of assets to secure court costs, but does not make a decision on the seizure of assets to cover compensation.