Outrage over comments on sex slaves
Anyone who doubts that the Japanese army forced women into sexual slavery in World War II should “face the truth,” South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon said as outrage grew over comments by Japan’s prime minister that there was no evidence of enslavement.
Women’s rights activists in the Philippines and a group of lawmakers in South Korea also denounced Shinzo Abe for saying there was no proof that so-called comfort women were forced into prostitution, an assertion calling into doubt a 1993 apology by Japan’s government.
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