SEOUL: Former Japanese premier Tomiichi Murayama said Wednesday that Japan had committed "indescribable wrongdoings" by forcing women from South Korea and elsewhere to serve as sex slaves to its wartime troops.
Murayama, who as prime minister issued an apology in 1995 for Japan's wartime aggression, said it was time for Tokyo to finally resolve the issue of the so-called "comfort women" who were drafted into military brothels.
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