The Japan Times
AsiaPac · 3 hrs ago
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Late LDP dove Yohei Kono widely known for landmark apology over ‘comfort women’
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Yohei Kono, a prominent Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician known for issuing a 1993 official apology for Japan's wartime 'comfort women' system, has died. The statement he released as chief cabinet secretary acknowledged Japan's 'sincere apologies and remorse' and became a subject of domestic and international debate.
Late LDP dove Yohei Kono widely known for landmark apology over ‘comfort women’
As chief cabinet secretary in 1993, he issued a statement expressing Japan's "sincere apologies and remorse," which sparked a domestic and international controversy.
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