Mayor's meeting with former sex slaves canceled

Mayor's meeting with former sex slaves canceled

OSAKA, Japan - File photo shows Kil Won Ok, 84, a South Korean woman who was forced to serve as a wartime sex slave, at Hiroshima airport shortly after her arrival from South Korea on May 17, 2013. Kil and another such woman canceled a scheduled meeting with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on May 24, saying it is "worthless." Hashimoto has been under fire over his claim that sexual servitude was "necessary to maintain discipline" in the Japanese military.

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