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House Passes the 'Comfort Women' Resolution
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Content note: this entry describes sexual violence.
The US House unanimously passed Rep. Mike Honda's resolution urging Japan to formally apologize for forcing some 200,000 women-many Korean, Chinese, and Filipino-into sexual slavery as 'comfort women' during World War II.
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- congress.gov congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-resolution/121
- npr.org npr.org/2007/07/31/12372399/u-s-demands-apology-for-comfort-women