Tokyo (AFP) - The head of Japan's public broadcaster told lawmakers Friday he was sorry for saying the Japanese Imperial Army's system of wartime sex slavery was commonplace, and pledged he would safeguard the network's neutrality.
Katsuto Momii apologised for "causing trouble" when he said last weekend that the practice of forcibly drafting women into military brothels during World War II was "common in any country at war".
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