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  • Growing chorus slams war-brothel remarks (Did Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe step in 'it'?)

    03/02/2007 11:18:48 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 1,225+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/2/07 | Carl Freire - ap
    TOKYO - Anyone who doubts that the Japanese army forced Asian women into sexual slavery in World War II should "face the truth," South Korea's foreign minister said Friday as outrage grew over comments by Japan's prime minister that there was no evidence of the enslavement. Women's rights activists in the Philippines and a group of lawmakers in South Korea also denounced the remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday that there was no proof that so-called "comfort women" were forced into prostitution during the war. But one of the harshest comments came from 81-year-old Hilaria Bustamante of...