Japan won't revise wartime brothel apology - Japan's Suga

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks during an interview with Reuters in Tokyo February 15, 2014. REUTERS/Yuya Shino

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will neither revise a landmark 1993 apology to women, many Korean, who were forced to serve in wartime military brothels nor will it issue a new statement on the matter, Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday.

"(The government) will examine the statement, but we will not revise it," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters.