"The issue of Japan's use of Korean, Chinese and Southeast Asian women and girls as sex slaves - euphemistically called ""comfort women"" - continues to alienate Tokyo from its neighbors nearly 70 years after the war's end. (Photo: A South Korean former 'comfort woman' (center), who was forced to serve as a sex slave for Japanese troops during World War II, holds a butterfly-shaped placard reading 'official apology,' during the 1,035th weekly protest against Japan in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on August 15, 2012."
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