28 accord in which it offered an apology for the wartime atrocity. It added to continued public doubts in South Korea about the Shinzo Abe administration's sincerity behind the Dec. "Forceful taking away of comfort women by the military and government authorities could not be confirmed in any of the documents," it said. In the formal document submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination, Japan said it has conducted a "full-scale fact-finding study on the comfort women issue since the early 1990s" but found no evidence of any coercion. It was responding to reports that Japan has again stopped short of admitting to the forced nature of the Japanese military's wartime sex slavery of Asian women in a recent report to a U.N. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry stressed it's a "undeniable historical fact" that Japan used coercion to recruit and mobilize the "comfort women" when Korea was under Japan's brutal colonial rule. 31 (Yonhap) - South Korea warned Japan Sunday not to do anything undermining their agreement on Korean women forced to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II. Korea's statement CHANGES headline, slug)
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