Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe says a deal reached with South Korea to discontinuance the row over the use of wartime sex slaves marks a new era between the two countries. Apologising on Monday to South Korean ‘consolation women’,as those forced to work in Japanese brothels during the Second World War were known, prime minister Shinzo Abe says: ‘From nowadays, or Japan and South Korea will enter into a new era.’ Photograph: Jiji Press Japan/AFP/Getty ImagesJapan and South Korea unexpectedly agree to settle wartime sex slaves row
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Source: theguardian.com