Japan rejects S. Korea's call for additional measures on comfort women

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Tuesday rejected a South Korean request that the Japanese government take additional measures over the issue of Korean women who were forced into Japan's wartime military brothels.Japan "can by no means accept" such a request, apparently including a fresh apology by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the so-called comfort women, Kono told his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung Wha on the sidelines of a 20-nation ministerial meeting on North Korea in Vancouver, Canada, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.Kono was quoted by the ministry as telling Kang…READ FULL ARTICLE