Japan-funded "comfort women" foundation in South Korea formally closed

A Japanese-funded foundation set up in South Korea under a 2015 bilateral agreement on the issue of Korean women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels has been formally dissolved, a person closely involved with the organization said Friday.After deciding in November to dissolve the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation, the South Korean government took procedural steps toward the dissolution without consent from the Japanese government.In Tokyo on Friday, after reports of the foundation's formal dissolution, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasutoshi Nishimura said Japan "can n…READ FULL ARTICLE