Japan Officially Apologizes to South Korea for World War II 'Comfort Women'

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At the end of World War II, an estimated 200,000 South Korean women were forced by the Imperial Japanese Army to work in brothels as “comfort women,” a euphemized term for sexual slavery, for the Japanese military. On Monday, South Korea accepted Japan’s reconciliatory apology and offer to contribute 1 billion yen ($8.3 million) to a victims’ fund.

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