Spat over WWII brothels shows Japan`s trouble in facing past
(WorldNews Japan)

TOKYO (AP) - A journalist close to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has defended her view that Korean women who were sent to Japanese wartime military brothels were not sex slaves, and accused a liberal-leaning newspaper of fabrication. One of the newspaper`s reporters said a day earlier that the journalist`s comments triggered threats against him and had interfered with the settlement of the issue between Japan and South Korea. Their public spat - a defamation suit by reporter Takashi Uemura against journalist Yoshiko Sakurai - highlights Japan`s struggle to come to terms with its wartime atrocities more than 70 years after World War II. The two represent the divide. The conservatives...