Anyone who doubts that the Japanese army forced women into sexual slavery in World War II should "face the truth," South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon said as outrage grew over comments by Japan's prime minister that there was no evidence of enslavement.
Women's rights activists in the Philippines and a group of lawmakers in South Korea also denounced Shinzo Abe for saying there was no proof that so-called comfort women were forced into prostitution, an assertion calling into doubt a 1993 apology by Japan's government.
