The view of a United Nations committee criticizing the recent "comfort women" agreement between Seoul and Tokyo is "extremely regrettable and unacceptable," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday.
Suga was commenting on concluding observations issued Monday by the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, which covered various kinds of discrimination against women in Japan.
The U.N. committee said the comfort women agreement — in which the Japanese and South Korean leaders agreed Dec. 28 to solve diplomatic issues involving the women forced into prostitution "finally and irreversibly" — "did not fully adopt a victim-centered approach."