Japan’s emperor should hold hands with women forced to work in the country’s military brothels and make a personal apology if Tokyo wants to end the decades-old dispute, South Korea’s top lawmaker said.
National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang said in an interview Thursday that Japanese Emperor Akihito -- as the “the son of the main culprit of war crimes” -- should deliver the apology before his planned abdication in May. Moon was asked how the two U.S. allies could resolve a worsening diplomatic feud fueled by disagreements over Japan’s 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula, much of it under the emperor’s late father, Hirohito.
“It only takes one word from the prime minister, who represents Japan -- I wish the emperor would do it since he will step down soon,” said Moon, South Korea’s No. 2 elected official and a former presidential envoy to Japan. “Isn’t he the son of the main culprit of war crimes?
“So, if a person like that holds the hands of the elderly and says he’s really sorry, then that one word will resolve matters once and for all,” he said.
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韓国国会議長発言に強く抗議 謝罪と撤回を要求2018.2.12 NHK
慰安婦問題をめぐって、韓国のムン・ヒサン（文喜相）国会議長が先に天皇陛下が謝罪すれば解消されるなどと述べたことについて、安倍総理大臣は衆議院予算委員会で、甚だしく不適切な内容を含み極めて遺憾だとして、韓国側に強く抗議するとともに謝罪と撤回を要求したことを明らかにしました。(引用ここまで)
