'Comfort women' resolution not meant to embarrass Abe

'Comfort women' resolution not meant to embarrass Abe

WASHINGTON, United States - Eni Faleomavaega, the head of a U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee panel, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at his office on March 13. He said that a resolution pending in the U.S. Congress to seek Japan's apology for forcing women of other Asian nations into sexual servitude for its military during World War II is not intended to embarrass Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is due to visit Washington on April 26.

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