Seoul - Yonhap
Japan has no plan to revise a landmark apology over its sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday, amid growing criticism over Tokyo's attempts to deny the atrocity. Japan admitted to coercing Korean women into sexual slavery and apologized for it in a 1993 statement that was named after its then chief cabinet secretary, Yohei Kono. But the right-wing Abe administration suggested last month a plan to review the apologetic statement, triggering wild backlash from Seoul.