| A former South Korean "comfort woman", who served as sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II, shouts slogans during an anti-Japanese rally in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, March 14, 2007. For the thousands of women around Asia who were forced into sex slavery as "comfort women" for the Japanese military during World War Two, recent comments by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denying that such cruelty had taken place "in the strict sense of coercion" only added to the agony they have endured, in silence, for decades. The slogan in butterfly-shaped placard reads "(Japan) should admit wartime criminal activity!" (Xinhua/AFP) |
