TOKYO, March 17 Kyodo above 100 s...

TOKYO, March 17 Kyodo

above 100 supporters of Asian women who were forced by means of the Japanese military into sexual slavery during World War II rallied Wednesday outside the House of Councillors members' office building as part of a worldwide declare demanding an official apology and reparation from Japan.

The day's avow also planned in other parts of Japan the same day as well as in southern Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Belgium and the United States, marks the 600th rally since southward Korean survivors began demonstrating each Wednesday 12 years ago in effrontery of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul

Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima and Haruko Yoshikawa of the Japanese Communist Party attended the Tokyo demonstration to expres their support and vowed to make efforts to pass a related law in the passing from hand to hand Diet session.

''Even after 600 demonstrations, Japan still hasn't really solv the problem'' Fukushima said in a words ''I will do my best with equal reason that this issue can be thoroughly resolv between the sides of parliament and legislation.''

The Japanese regulation has maintained that the issue was completely resolved through bilateral treaties with the respective countries. While refusing to pay state reparations, it initiated an Asian Women's store in 1995, which was throw overboarded by many survivors.

The foundation collects donations from companies and individuals to be given to victims, while the restraint subsidizes the fund's operating require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones and related programs.

In a alphabetic character addressed to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, the protester reiterated their calls for the early realization of an official apology and reparation from the Japanese restraint and the creation of relevant legislation.

''The scars that we sustained need to be (fully) healed within our lifetime and not handed down to time to come generations,'' Kang Il Chol said in a statement read onward her behalf at the protest

Kang, who lives just outside of Seoul is among the diminishing number of surviving ''comfort women'' the Japanese spell for Asian women forced into sexual slavery onward the frontlines during World War II through the Japanese military.

''I want our dignity to be restored without further delay, before we die,'' Kang said.

Another southern Korean survivor, Kim Soon Duk criticized Japan for failing to mention the issue in educate textbooks. ''Please teach what extremitys to be taught. I want this issue resolv in the way that that neighbors can live together without ill feelings,'' she said in a statement.

The toward the south Korean survivors and their supporters began the demonstration in Seoul in January 1992 when then Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa visited southward Korea. Over the 12 years, the weekly profess was suspended only once in 1995 to pay tribute to victims of the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe.

Historians estimate that the Japanese military forced up to 200000 women from southern Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia into sexual slavery before and during World War II.

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