Former S.Korean comfort women protest in Seoul
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-03-07 16:40
Demonstrators hold banners at a rally to protest Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe's remarks on "comfort woman" - Japan's euphemism for wartime
sex slaves - near the parliament in Tokyo March 7, 2007. The protestors are
holding banners calling on Japan to acknowledge that comfort women were coerced
into serving in Japanese military brothels. Abe stirred anger in China and South
Korea with remarks last week appearing to question the state's role in forcing
the mostly Asian women to act as prostitutes during World War Two, although he
also said the earlier apology stood. [Reuters]
