Japan hires US firms to deal 'comfort women' issue | ummid.comWashington: Japan has hired US lobby firms to deal with the "comfort women" issue that has roiled Japan's relations with those countries whose women were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese Imperial Armed Forces during World War II, a US daily said Thursday. At least two Washington-based lobby firms, Hogan Lovells and Hecht Spencer & Associates, are keeping tabs on the issue for the Japanese go
