TOKYO: Japan said on Friday it would not change a landmark 1993 apology over wartime sex slavery despite an inflammatory review that said there was no corroboration of evidence given by former “comfort women.”
The episode, which observers say is a messy compromise that looks set to satisfy no one, came as South Korea put on a show of force, holding a rare live-fire drill near islets at the center of its territorial dispute with Tokyo.
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