A/HRC/22/14 55. The Sudan highlighted Japan’s importance as a donor country. It commended Japan for establishing bilateral conditions for a dialogue, its cooperation and legislative efforts to protect foreigners. It made a recommendation. 56. Switzerland remained concerned at the resumption of the executions as well as by the detention system of daiyo kangoku. Switzerland made recommendations. 57. Thailand welcomed Japan’s adoption of its gender equality plan and its national/ international measures to combat child prostitution and child pornography. It appreciated Japan’s invitation to special-procedure mandate holders and its consideration of the CRPD. It made recommendations. 58. Timor-Leste appreciated Japan’s commitment to United Nations human rights mechanisms. It encouraged Japan to pursue its dialogue with the international community to reach understanding, possibly entailing direct, genuine communication with survivors of past atrocities. 59. The Government of Japan recognizes that the issue of “comfort women” was a grave affront to the honour and dignity of a large number of women, and has extended its sincere apologies and remorse to all those known as “comfort women” who suffered immeasurable pain and incurable physical and psychological wounds. 60. The issue of reparations, property and claims concerning the Second World War has been legally settled with the countries that are parties to the San Francisco Peace Treaty, bilateral treaties, agreements and instruments. 61. In 1995, the Government of Japan, together with the people of Japan, jointly established the Asian Women’s Fund to facilitate support for former comfort women who had by then reached an advanced age. The Government of Japan has extended its maximum support to the activities of the Fund, including health and welfare assistance projects as well as the provision of “atonement money” to former comfort women. The Government of Japan will continue its utmost efforts to widen further recognition of the earnest feelings of the people of Japan as reflected through the activities of the Fund, and will continue to follow up on the activities of the Fund. 62. Regarding the education curricula, Japan indicated that the Courses of Study refers to the Second World War, mentioning in the commentary of it that Japan has inflicted tremendous losses, especially to those in Asia. Respect for the opposite sex and respect of human rights is also part of the Courses of Study. 63. Japan indicated that the Basic Act for Persons with Disabilities was revised and the General Support for Persons with Disabilities Act was passed by the Diet, and that it intends to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as early as possible. 64. Japan reported that, in 2005, the Diet gave its approval for the ratification of the Palermo Protocol but it has not been concluded yet, since the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime needs to be ratified before the Protocol. 65. Japan reported that it was also studying the legal implications of the ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. 66. In 2010 Japan established comprehensive measures to eliminate child pornography. Legislation on sexual exploitation and abuse of children had been enacted, and producing and providing child pornography was a crime. The Diet was studying the possibility of widening the scope of penalizing child pornography. Among the police, enhanced enforcement and filtering was being promoted. Internet providers have voluntarily begun since April 2011 to adopt measures to block images of child pornography on the Internet. 8