Former Asahi reporter files libel suit over "comfort women" report

Takashi Uemura, a former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter, holds a press conference in Sapporo, northern Japan, on Feb. 10, 2015, after filing a libel suit with a local court against a journalist and three publishers earlier in the day, claiming their articles groundlessly labeled him as a fabricator of a report on a former Korean "comfort woman." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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