Another Korean victim of Japanese sexual slavery dies; new head of NHK makes offensive remarks

One of the few remaining Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery
has passed away at the age of 90.
Hwang Kum-ja , who was seized at the age of 13 and later forced to serve
in Japanese military brothels during the colonial era, died of old age early
Sunday.
With Hwang's passing, only 55 out of nearly 2-hundred-40 registered
Korean victims are still alive.
While it's race against time for the elderly victims waiting for a sincere
apology from Tokyo for its past atrocities, the new head of Japan's national
broadcaster NHK Katsuto Momii says military sex slaves existed in all
countries that engaged in war.
Momii then reiterated Tokyo's position, saying compensation for the former
sex slaves was settled in a bilateral pact in 1965.

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Interrogation report of 20 Korean “Comfort Girls” done by U.S. Army Forces:
www.exordio.com/1939-1945/codex/Documentos/report-49-USA-orig.html
PAY AND LIVING CONDITIONS;
The "house master" received fifty to sixty per cent of the girls' gross earnings depending on how much of a debt each girl had incurred when she signed her contract. This meant that in an average month a girl would gross about fifteen hundred yen. She turned over seven hundred and fifty to the "master". Many "masters" made life very difficult for the girls by charging them high prices for food and other articles.
In the latter part of 1943 the Army issued orders that certain girls who had paid their debt could return home. Some of the girls were thus allowed to return to Korea.