A Seoul-based group has released footage of interviews conducted by the Japanese government with victims of forced sexual slavery in World War II to produce the 1993 apology known as the Kono Statement.
"We want the public to see that there is evidence," a representative of the Association for the Pacific War Victims said Monday at a news conference.
The interviews took place in the association's office in July 1993, before then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono released the statement the following month.