Ex-reporter seeks damages over magazine's "comfort women" articles

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Uemura, a former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 9, 2015, after filing a damages suit with the Tokyo District Court against a magazine publisher and a university professor, claiming that an article about his decades-old report on a former Korean "comfort woman" triggered threats and other serious violations of his rights.

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