Reuters, Tokyo :
Japan said on Tuesday it had lodged a complaint with South Korea and after a Korean lawmaker said the Japanese emperor should apologise to “comfort women” forced to serve in Japanese military brothels in World War Two.
Relations between Japan and South Korea, both U.S. allies, have amid an intensifying row over their wartime history. That includes Japan’s 1910-45 occupation of the Korean peninsula and its use of comfort women, many of them Korean.
South Korea’s National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang said in an interview with Bloomberg last week Japanese Emperor Akihito, “as the son of the main culprit of war crimes”, should apologise to the women before he steps down at the end of April.
