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The Yomiuri Shinbun Takes Pride in Its Shame: Expurgating Japan's “Sex Slaves”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Michael Penn
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The Yomiuri Shinbun stunned the world in late November with a highly unusual apology. The paper announced that it had found dozens of articles in past issues of the English-language Daily Yomiuri (now called The Japan News) between February 1992 and January 2013 that used the expression “sex slave” to refer to wartime comfort women.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , January 2015 , e3
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