Japan urged to apologize to, compensate ex-sex slaves

Japan urged to apologize to, compensate ex-sex slaves

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows Yayori Matsui (R), head of the Violence Against Women in War and Conflict Situations Network, Japan, and Gabrielle McDonald (2nd from R), former president of the war crimes tribunal on the former Yugoslavia, together with former Korean ''comfort woman'' Hwang Gum Ju (3rd from R) at a news conference in New York where Hwang call for an official apology and compensation on March 8 from the Japanese government for using hundreds of thousands of women as sex slaves before and during World War II.

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