Former vice prime minister Yohei Kono (left) answers questions next to former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama (right) during their joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 9, 2015. -AFP
TOKYO: Japan must face up to the truth over its wartime system of sex slavery if it is to purge the stain of its past wrongs, the man who issued a landmark apology said Tuesday.
Yohei Kono, who as chief Cabinet secretary in 1993 offered Japan’s fullest mea culpa for its wartime enslavement of up to 200,000 mainly Asian women, said Tokyo must not shy away from its responsibility.
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