Prime Minister Shinzo Abe confirmed that he described comfort women, mainly Asian females who were forced to provide sex to wartime Japanese soldiers, as victims of human trafficking in a recent interview with The Washington Post. <\/p>\n
The remarks provoked a backlash from South Korea. A South Korean official said Saturday that the remarks were a deception if Abe had been attempting to shift the blame for the forcible recruitment of the comfort women to private brokers and deny the governments involvement. <\/p>\n
In the interview, published Friday, the newspaper quoted Abe as saying the comfort women had been victimized by human trafficking. His original words in Japanese were not revealed. <\/p>\n
During a Diet committee meeting on Monday, Abe confirmed he told the interviewer that comfort women were victims of jinshin baibai, which is usually translated as human trafficking. <\/p>\n
There has been a variety of discussions, and human trafficking has been cited in some discussions, Abe said about debate on the comfort women issue. <\/p>\n
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