Cold companion: A statue symbolising a wartime sex slave near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. — AP
Seoul: A South Korean court has ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to 12 World War II sex slaves or their families, in an unprecedented ruling that prompted an immediate denunciation by Tokyo.
The Seoul Central District Court ruled yesterday that Japan should pay the victims 100 million won (RM370,000) each.
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