Japan Not Planning to Revise Comfort Women Apology, Suga Says

The Japanese government is not planning to revise an apology for the military’s use of sex slaves in Asia in the 1930s and 1940s, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said.

Suga told reporters in Tokyo he stood by parliamentary testimony in which he said he planned to verify the evidence and check whether the 1993 statement was agreed to with the South Korean government at the time. He also rejected comments by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who said last week that Japan must make a clean break with the past to get out of an impasse in bilateral relations.