{"id":26504,"date":"2021-01-08T15:19:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T06:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/seoul-court-orders-japan-to-pay-damages-over-wartime-sexual-slavery"},"modified":"2021-01-08T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T06:19:42","slug":"seoul-court-orders-japan-to-pay-damages-over-wartime-sexual-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26504","title":{"rendered":"Seoul court orders Japan to pay damages over wartime sexual slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan denounces ruling as \u2018unacceptable\u2019 as row over sexual enslavement of women in the second world war enters new chapter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has denounced as \u201cutterly unacceptable\u201d a South Korean court ruling ordering it to pay damages to women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during the second world war.<\/p>\n<p>The Seoul central district court on Friday said Japan was liable to compensate 12 women who were forced to work as so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/oct\/18\/forced-prostitution-wartime-japan-korea\">comfort women<\/a>\u201d, in a ruling that is expected to inflict further damage on the countries\u2019 already fraught ties.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/seoul-court-orders-japan-to-pay-damages-over-wartime-sexual-slavery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan denounces ruling as \u2018unacceptable\u2019 as row over sexual enslavement of women in the second world war enters new chapterJapan has denounced as \u201cutterly unacceptable\u201d a South Korean court ruling ordering it to pay damages to women who were sexually e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504\/revisions\/26505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}