South Korea urges Japan to apologize to WW II sex slaves
South Korean president park Geun-Hye on Sunday repeated a call for Japanese leaders to apologize to former wartime sex slaves, warning that “time is running out” for Tokyo. Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, mainly from Korea but also from china, Indonesia and other Asian nations were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II. The issue a key sticking point in ties between the two neighbours further strained relations in recent months amid an increasingly aggressive campaign in Japan to claim these “comfort women” were common prostitutes. Park has urged Japanese leaders to offer an apology, and repeated the call for Tokyo to use “all means” to resolve the issue as the numbers of survivors rapidly dwindles. “We now have only 53 survivors aged nearly 90 on average. Time is running out to restore their honour”, park said in a speech marking the anniversary of the country’s 1919 uprising against the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial rule. The vi