Japanese newspaper retracts term ‘sex slaves’ from wartime coverageJapan’s biggest-selling newspaper has apologised for its past use of the term “sex slaves†to describe tens of thousands of women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during the second world war. The move by the Yomiuri Shimbun, a conservative broadsheet with a daily circulation of more than 10 million, has fuelled concern that sections of the country’s media have signe
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