Dispute flares anew between Japan and South Korea over World War II sex slaves
(LA Times Clippers)

The pain behind the euphemism - ianfu, or `comfort women` - has reverberated for more than 70 years. Forced servitude in Japanese wartime brothels ensnared up to 200,000 women from across a wide swath of Asia, and although the surviving cohort is dwindling down to dozens, the historic wound refuses...