A former Korean sex slave forced to work in a Japanese wartime military brothel demanded compensation and an apology at a rally outside the Diet building with dozens of supporters in Tokyo on Thursday.

"Please come before the victims and apologize," one of the organizers said through a microphone, addressing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as about 90 protesters held large photos of the Japanese military's former sex slaves.

Historians say as many as 200,000 Asian women, mostly from Korea and China, worked in Japan's military-run brothels. Victims say they were forced to work at the brothels by the Japanese military and were held against their will.

Lee Yong-soo, 78, a former sex slave from South Korea, said she was taken to a brothel in Taiwan for Japan's kamikaze pilots when she was 14.

"I was taken to a soldier's room and I was kicked," she told the rally. "I am a victim who was forcibly taken."

Japan has rejected most compensation claims from women who worked in the brothels. A private fund created in 1995 offered limited support to former sex slaves, but that fund was shut down in March. (AP)

it's peculiar, fair-juno: American war criminals are reportedly immune to war crimes tribunals. i imagine there are others in other prosperous nations who smirk self righteously at the idea of the international court of justice.

eventually global politics COULD evolve so that these sex workers -- and victims in many cases -- could recieve justice and the situation could change. that will probably not happen overnight. but it's funny about the ICJ.

looking at their docket i noticed that small 'slave' nations seemed to have cases going -- also France. but no United States, no China -- as if the G8 had set things up to make themselves alll but immune to things -- while Rwanda and Kossovo would have their citizens set up on charges.

i think that such is important because municipal lawbreakers often get caught. these nationalist offenders deserve no better treatment - and it seems that these crimes against women in particular must end to make a better world for everyone. but this is how i earned my red dots.

I figured it was for the times you've been posting insane screeds of unedited shite from other sources and trying to pass them off as something that you also thought? Or not? You're a victim too.

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