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Japanese Imperialists' Sexual Slavery under Fire in S. Korea

Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- The Council for the Solution of the Issue of the Volunteers Corps in south Korea on Dec. 11 opened to public a document on sexual slavery committed by the Imperial Japanese Army which was submitted by a French inspection group to the Far Eastern Military Tribunal after World War II, according to Thongil News, an internet paper of south Korea.

This document was provided by Hirofumi Hayashi, a professor at Kanto Gakuin University of Japan, at a press conference held in Paris to hold the Imperial Japanese Army accountable for sexual abuses in wartime.

According to data, 50 soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army perpetrated violence against French women in Indonesia in 1947, forced them into sexual slavery and killed all of them later.

Yun Mi Hyang, permanent representative of the council, said that historic records brought to light the fact that the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army was an organized crime committed by the Japanese government as a state policy under the command of the army.

Yun urged the international community to play its role in pressurizing Japan to admit its past sexual abuses and redress the crimes, though belatedly.