Japan asks for partial retraction of U.N. report on wartime brothels

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo of Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan lawyer who compiled a United Nations report on "comfort women" in 1996. Coomaraswamy has rejected the Japanese government's request to retract part of the report's contents that Tokyo sees as false, the top government spokesman said on Oct. 16, 2014.

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