Japan PM's WW2 remarks likely to reflect view 'comfort women' rights violated

Tomomi Inada, head of the Policy Research Council of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, poses for a photograph in front of television screens showing Abe during a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event in Tokyo June 17, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's planned statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two will likely reflect his view that Japan's "comfort women" system of wartime military brothels violated the women's human rights, the policy chief of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said on Wednesday.

The issue of "comfort women", a euphemism by which the victims are known in Japan, has long haunted Tokyo's ties with South Korea. Relations remain chilly even as the Asian neighbours near the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties on Monday.