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# comfort-women - Sunday 16 July, 2017
Japan protests against bid to recognise Korean women forced into brothels
Japanese troops forced thousands of women to work in brothels during World War II.
# comfort-women - Sunday 12 March, 2017
Chinese 'comfort women' are fighting to have their history of sex slavery remembered
Around 200,000 women were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during WWII.
# comfort-women - Monday 28 December, 2015
Japan apologises to women forced to be sex slaves for WWII soldiers
The Korean women were forced into military-run brothels.
# comfort-women - Sunday 27 December, 2015
World War II sex slaves and their fight for justice
There’s continued tension between Japan and South Korea over the ‘comfort women’.
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Poll: Have you started your Christmas shopping?
WE ARE 18 days away from Christmas – that’s 17 shopping days. That’s 408 hours (sorry).
It always seems as though there are those who get the shopping out of the way in March where some like that last minute panic on Christmas Eve.
So, this morning we want to know: Have you started your Christmas shopping?
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A real tree is a much greener option than one made from plastic, writes Michael Kelly.
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Opinion: 'Hong Kong people are more tolerant of radical protest because of guilt - not anger'
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