Ex-U.N. envoy sees no need to revise 'comfort women' report

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lankan lawyer Radhika Coomaraswamy, a former U.N. researcher who compiled a report that urged Japan to apologize and pay compensation over the so-called "comfort women" issue, speaks during an interview in Colombo on Sept. 2, 2014. She said she sees no need to revise her 1996 report that referred to testimony by a Japanese man cited by a major Japanese daily, which later retracted it for being false. (Kyodo)

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