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The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Volume 11 | Issue 10 | Number 2 | Article ID 3911 | Mar 05, 2013 Human Rights, Memory and Reconciliation: Korea-Japan Relations Mikyoung Kim Memory, Apology and Compensation: Japan- Korea Relations Introduction In April 2012, then Japanese prime minister, The new Abe administration in Japan plans to Noda Yoshihiko, sent a letter to the South re-examine the 1993 Kono statement in which Korean president in response to Seouls Chief Cabinet Secretary Kono Yohei, apologized requests to resolve the comfort women issue and admitted the Japanese governments (Dong-A Daily, December 18, 2011; Yonhap responsibility for the comfort station News, April 20, 2012). Prior to that, on August operations. If it proceeds with this plan, the 30, 2011, the South Korean Supreme Court Abe government is likely to whitewash or handed down a ruling that effectively reversed revoke the Kono statement, which has been the clause 2, article 1 of the 1965 bilateral consistent object of resentment and criticisms agreement which established Japan-ROK among neonationalists. Mr. Abe has been relations, which stated that the compensation arguing that no historical documents exist to to Korea from Japan for wartime injustices was support the claim of forcible recruitment of completely and finally resolved. The decision girls and young women into wartime military reflects two considerations. First, the Japanese sexual slavery. Suga Yoshihide, the Chief governments systematic involvement with