(25 Jun 2014) World War II Filipino comfort women gathered outside the Japanese Embassy in Manila on Wednesday to demand the same recognition as their Korean counterparts, following a recent review of the so-called Kono statement, which acknowledged the Japanese military's use of Korean sex slaves during World War II.
The women, elderly and frail, held placards reading "No to resurgence of Japanese Militarism"and "Justice for all victims of rape".
Protest leader Rechilda Extremadura, called on the Japanese government to acknowledge the use of Filipino women as sex slaves during the war, and to pay them compensation.
The Kono statement was issued in 1993 by then cabinet Chief Secretary Yohei Kono.
Japanese lawmakers met behind closed doors last Friday to hear the results of a probe into a study that was the basis of the statement - a review that South Korea and China have criticised as an attempt to discredit historical evidence of such abuses.
The new investigation by an independent panel focused on how the study, which included interviews with former Korean victims, was conducted, not its findings.
Historians say as many as 200-thousand women, mostly Koreans, were forced to provide sex to Japan's frontline soldiers.
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