South Korean government agrees to Japan's ``abandonment of appeal'' against comfort women lawsuit... ``Both countries strive for future-oriented cooperation''

On the 9th, the South Korean government said, regarding Japan's abandonment of its appeal in a South Korean lawsuit for damages for torts related to comfort women, ``We hope that South Korea and Japan will continue to work toward future-oriented cooperation.''
We will continue to work hard.'' An official from South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said earlier, ``Our government is continuing efforts to restore the honor and dignity of the former comfort women.''
The official said, ``The government respects the 2015 South Korea-Japan comfort women agreement as an agreement between nations, and this recognition has been consistently upheld by successive governments.''
The South Korean government's statement that it ``respects the 2015 Korea-Japan comfort women agreement'' means that it will ``make use of the contents of the agreement and seek a solution to this case within a diplomatic framework.''
It seems that. On the 23rd of last month, the Seoul High District Court ruled in the second instance of a damage compensation suit brought against the Japanese government by 16 former comfort women and their families, ``reversing the judgment of the first instance and reversing the amount claimed by the plaintiffs.''
Since the Japanese government did not submit a letter of appeal by midnight on the 9th, the appeal deadline, the appellate court's judgment became final.
The Japanese government believes that under international customary law, ``a sovereign state cannot stand in the courts of another country.''
According to the principle of “state immunity (sovereign immunity),” the comfort women-related lawsuits that have been filed in South Korea so far have been
We are committed to ``responsiveness''. The current abandonment of the appeal is also based on this context. On the 8th of this month, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa reaffirmed her position that she would not respond to this ruling, adding,
I would like to request that appropriate measures be taken."