Education minister Nariaki Nakayama apologized Tuesday for “causing trouble” to the government with his recent remark hailing the removal of references to wartime sex slaves for Japanese troops from revised history textbooks, top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
Hosoda said Nakayama apologized in a meeting of Cabinet ministers after he chided him for his weekend remark, which drew fire from South Korea and China.
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