Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Feb. 28 told the Lower House Budget Committee that the Abe administration will start examining the process in which then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono’s August 1993 statement on the issue of wartime “comfort women” was made. Comfort women refer to those women who got caught up in the wartime institutionalization of sexual services provided to members of the Imperial Japanese armed forces.
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