Yoshihide Suga said the background to the Kono statement should be re-examined Japan will form a team to review the lead-up to a 1993 statement which acknowledged its wartime use of sex slaves, its top spokesman says. Yoshihide Suga said the team would "re-examine and understand the background". The acknowledgement that women were forced into sex slavery with Japanese military complicity was viewe
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