The government has transferred ¥1 billion ($9.8 million) to a South Korean fund established to help women who were forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
The transaction was confirmed after the money arrived in the bank account of the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation on Thursday.
The foundation was set up in July by the South Korean government to support the survivors, euphemistically known as "comfort women" in Japan, under a historic deal reached between the two countries late last year.