Abe backtracks over 'comfort women'

All looked well on Dec 28.

On that day, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed the "most sincere apologies and remorse" to Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese troops during World War II.

Under a "final consensus" between the governments of Japan and the Republic of Korea, the former committed to an $8.3-million fund to help the surviving "comfort women" in the ROK.