Japanese PM apologises for war-time brothels

Japan’s prime minister today offered a fresh apology for wartime brothels after coming under fire for denying his country forced women to work as sex slaves.

“I apologise here and now as prime minister,” Shinzo Abe told a parliamentary committee, according to spokesman Hiroshi Suzuki.

Mr Abe drew international criticism earlier this month when he denied there was any evidence that women, mostly from Korea and China, were forced to work as sex slaves in Japanese military brothels during the Second World War.