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JAPAN

Use of 'sex slave' term retracted

Japan's biggest newspaper apologized on Friday for the repeated use in its English language edition of the term "sex slave" to describe women who worked in brothels serving Imperial soldiers during World War II. The step by the Yomiuri Shimbun comes as Japanese conservatives grow increasingly bold in their demands that the country's wartime record be re-evaluated more sympathetically, egged on by the nationalist government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The English edition now uses the euphemism "so-called comfort women".