VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Tuesday rejected a South Korean request that the Japanese government take additional measures over the issue of Korean women who were forced into Japan’s wartime military brothels.
Japan “can by no means accept” such a request, apparently including a fresh apology by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the “comfort women,” Kono told his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, on the sidelines of a 20-nation ministerial meeting on North Korea in Vancouver, British Columbia, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
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