Japan must act responsibly on 'comfort women': China

Japan must act responsibly on 'comfort women': China
(Xinhua) Updated: 2014-02-28 22:25


BEIJING - China on Friday urged Japan to act responsibly, after a senior Japanese official announced plans to reexamine a landmark statement offering apologies for Japan's wartime sexual slavery.

"We hope Japan can take a responsible attitude and properly handle the issue, so as to comfort the living and help the dead rest in peace," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a regular press briefing.

He noted the dwindling numbers of living "comfort women," a euphemism for those forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said during a lower house session on Friday that the government plans to set up a team to reexamine an official statement made by then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono in 1993.

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