TOKYO: Activists said on Monday they had a trove of documents proving the Japanese military was complicit in the wartime system of sex slavery, despite nationalist quibbles over responsibility.

The Asian Solidarity Con–ference said it had more than 500 papers—many of them from the government—that supported the 1993 apology issued by Tokyo, in which it said it was sorry for the coercive brothel system.

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