Former 'comfort women' demonstrate against Japan minister's remark

SEOUL, South Korea - Some 50 people, including former ''comfort women,'' shout their protest outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Dec. 1 over remarks made by Japanese education minister Nariaki Nakayama on Japanese history textbooks. Nakayama said in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, on Nov. 27 ''It is good that references to comfort women and abductions from occupied territories are decreasing'' in history textbooks for junior high schools and high schools.

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