SEOUL, July 27 (UPI) -- Japan will provide $9.5 million to a fund compensating Korean "comfort women" of World War II, Seoul's Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday.
The August deposit to the Reconciliation and Healing foundation is meant to resolve a long-running diplomatic feud between the two countries. The mission of the foundation, scheduled to begin operations Thursday, is to restore dignity to up to 200,000 women, euphemistically called "comfort women," enslaved in brothels serving Japanese soldiers, while the Korean peninsula was under Japanese rule from 1910 to 1945.