Japan paper Yomiuri Shimbun retracts 'sex slaves' referencesFormer comfort women and their relatives have held demonstrations in Tokyo demanding justice Japan's biggest newspaper has issued a controversial apology for using the term "sex slaves" when referring to women who worked in brothels set up for Japanese soldiers in World War Two. Yomiuri Shimbun said its English version should not have used the phrase as it implied the women were coerced.
