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Journalist, activist Matsui dies at 68

TOKYO, Japan - Yayori Matsui (file photo), a noted journalist and activist, died of liver cancer on Dec. 27. She was 68. After retiring from the Asahi Shimbun, Matsui served as chairwoman of Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan, a group that supports women victimized by Japan's military sexual slavery before and during World War II.

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Japan urged to apologize to, compensate ex-sex slaves

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows Yayori Matsui (R), head of the Violence Against Women in War and Conflict Situations Network, Japan, and Gabrielle McDonald (2nd from R), former president of the war crimes tribunal on the former Yugoslavia, together with former Korean ''comfort woman'' Hwang Gum Ju (3rd from R) at a news conference in New York where Hwang call for an official apology and compensation on March 8 from the Japanese government for using hundreds of thousands of women as sex slaves before and during World War II.

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Journalist, activist Matsui dies at 68

TOKYO, Japan - Yayori Matsui (file photo), a noted journalist and activist, died of liver cancer on Dec. 27. She was 68. After retiring from the Asahi Shimbun, Matsui served as chairwoman of Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan, a group that supports women victimized by Japan's military sexual slavery before and during World War II. (Kyodo)

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Japan urged to apologize to, compensate ex-sex slaves

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows Yayori Matsui (R), head of the Violence Against Women in War and Conflict Situations Network, Japan, and Gabrielle McDonald (2nd from R), former president of the war crimes tribunal on the former Yugoslavia, together with former Korean ''comfort woman'' Hwang Gum Ju (3rd from R) at a news conference in New York where Hwang call for an official apology and compensation on March 8 from the Japanese government for using hundreds of thousands of women as sex slaves before and during World War II.