Emperor targeted in sex-slavery tribunal

Women¡¯s rights organizations from North and South Korea, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan have agreed to indict former Japanese Emperor Hirohito in the ¡°Women¡¯s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan¡¯s Military Sexual Slavery in 2000¡± to be held this December in Tokyo.

Shin Hei-Soo, head of the international cooperation division of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, said Wednesday in the annual meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, that the women¡¯s organizations agreed to indict former Emperor Hirohito, according to international laws in 1945, in a meeting in Manila last month.

Shin criticized Japan¡¯s lukewarm attitude toward the issue of comfort women by trying to compensate them with funds from the Asian Women Fund.