In connection with a ruling in South Korea that ordered compensation against the Japanese government over the comfort women issue, it was found that a Korean court set a deadline for submitting a list of assets in Korea to the Japanese government in March next year. rice field.
In January, a district court in Seoul handed down a ruling ordering the Japanese government to compensate the Japanese government for a total of 1.2 billion won, or 110 million yen in Japanese yen, on the issue of comfort women, and the Japanese government is subject to the jurisdiction of South Korea. The decision was finalized without appeal from the standpoint that this was not admitted.
After that, the court ordered the Japanese government to disclose the inventory of assets in South Korea in June, and in connection with this, specified a date to disclose it in court on March 21, next year. I understand the day.
The assets of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul are protected by the "Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations".
In addition, the Government of Japan has stated that the ruling ordering compensation clearly violates international law and the agreement between Japan and South Korea, and repeatedly demands that the South Korean side take appropriate measures.
Regarding the comfort women issue, in April, a judgment of the first trial was handed down in another trial to dismiss the complaints of former comfort women, and in November, the trial of the second trial is scheduled to begin at the High Court in Seoul.