Twenty Korean women working as prostitutes for the Japanese military in northern
Burma were recruited in exchange for money and paid, according to the report
written in 1944 by the US military's intelligence division, Sankei said. The
report was based on an interrogation of a Japanese owner of the brothel.
The document contradicts statements that Japan's army forced women into sexual
servitude, the Sankei said.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe drew criticism from Asia and the U.S. after he said
in March there is no evidence to show that the military coerced women into
prostitution. He later apologized to the women, while stopping short of
accepting Japan's responsibility or the practice.
Japanese historian Yoshimi Yoshiaki estimated in a 1995 book that as many as 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia and Burma served as sex slaves in 2,000 so-called comfort stations across Asia.
