TOKYO: The maverick mayor of Osaka is to meet former wartime sex slaves, reports said on Thursday after he pledged to apologize to them, while insisting Japan’s soldiers were not unique in brutalizing women.
Up to 200,000 “comfort women” from Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were forcibly drafted into brothels catering to the Japanese military during World War II, according to many mainstream historians.
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