> 1]. I think people keep chiding Japan because they are reluctant to address the so called “comfort women”.

They’ve issued a bunch of specific apologies specifically regarding the “comfort women”, beginning in 1992 and then frequently thereafter. At various times they have apologized several times per year.

The apologies are listed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statemen..., culminating in a 2015 apology that was agreed to by South Korea to “finally and irrevocably resolve the issue”

And amazingly still the notion that they won’t apologize for it is commonplace.