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China slams Japan over wartime sex abuse
December 16, 2004
China called on Japan to face up to its military's wartime use of sex slaves
after a Tokyo court rejected a lawsuit by four elderly Chinese women who said
they were raped repeatedly by Japanese soldiers.
"We think that the forced conscription of comfort women is a very severe and
grave crime," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said.
"We hope the Japanese side could approach properly these historical remnants."
Liu said Beijing had "taken note" of the latest ruling but didn't say what
steps the Chinese government wanted Japan to take.
Japan's military shipped thousands of women from China, Korea and other Asian
countries to provide sex for Japanese troops and staff brothels established in
occupied territories.
Historians say some 200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery.
Tokyo acknowledged in the 1990s that its military set up and ran brothels for
its troops, but Japan has rejected most compensation claims, saying they were
settled by postwar treaties.
The four women in the latest lawsuit sought 20 million yen ($A249,017) each.
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