Japan again denies coercion of 'comfort women' during WW2

The Japanese government has once again denied that its imperial army forced Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two.

Speaking at a meeting of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, held at the U.N. European headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday, Japan's representative to the meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama, said Tokyo is unable to confirm any forcible recruitment of the so-called "comfort women" during the war by the then military or government.

Sugiyama also asserted that evidence of Japan's forceful abducting of the comfort women, many of whom were Korean, has not been found in any of the documents that the government studied, including those at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration as well as hearings from relevant people.

Despite the current Tokyo government's repeated denials of imperial Japan's coercion of the comfort women, many documents discovered by historians, including Koreans as well as even Japanese scholars, show Japan's wartime atrocity.