LDP lawmaker says comfort women were "prostitutes"

Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yoshitaka Sakurada leaves without a word after a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2016. Sakurada called women forced into wartime Japanese military brothels "prostitutes," but retracted his remarks after they drew a swift rebuke from South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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