TOKYO: Japanese and South Korean officials on Tuesday reaffirmed their commitment to setting up a ¥1 billion ($9.14 million) fund to assist former “comfort women.”

The girls and young women forced to work in wartime Imperial military brothels are now elderly and in dwindling numbers.

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