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Japan’s Motegi takes aim at South Korea ‘comfort women’ ruling, China territorial rows
Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Monday criticised a recent South Korean court ruling ordering the Japanese government to pay damages to former “comfort women”, saying it has created an “abnormal” situation.“I will continue to strongly demand an appropriate response by the South Korean side,” Motegi said in a speech at the start of this year’s regular Diet session. The ruling over the women, who worked in Japanese military brothels before and during World War II, has reignited…