Japan Korea comfort women deal/agreement 

Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement over the long-standing issue of "comfort women," a term that describes sex slaves used by the Japanese military during World War II.

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said his government will give 1 billion yen ($8.3 million) to a fund to help those who suffered.

South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said that as long as Tokyo sticks to its side of the deal, Seoul will consider the issue "irreversibly" resolved.

In addition, the two governments "will refrain from criticizing and blaming each other in the international society, including the United Nations," Yun said at a joint news conference Monday.

Kishida said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe "expresses anew his most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women."

Abe later stated himself: "I think we did our duty for the current generation by reaching this final and irreversible resolution before the end of the 70th year since the war."

1.      yen (n) 日元

2.      sticks to 堅持

3.      irreversibly (adv) 不可逆地

4.      refrain (v) 避免

5.      joint (a) 聯合

6.      anew (adv) 重新

7.      remorse (n) 悔恨

8.      incurable (a) 不可救藥的

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/28/asia/south-korea-japan-comfort-women/