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On February 7 (Japan time), Chief Cabinet Secretary SUGA Yoshihide expressed Japanfs refutation regarding an article carried by CNN titled as gWhy this statue of a young girl caused a diplomatic incident.h
In that article, CNN reported that gAcademics estimate that up to 200,000 women and girls were forced into sex slavery during World War II by Japanese troops in Korea, China, Taiwan and Indonesia.h On that portion of the Article, SUGA denied forcible recruitment by the Japanese Army and calling the number just groundless. He said gOf the documents discovered by the investigation of the Japanese Government, there were NO documents indicating that the Japanese Army and/or Authority had directly recruited comfort women by force.h «Click the image below to go to the CNN article.
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