By FOSTER KLUG
Associated Press
July 31, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House passed a resolution Monday urging Japan to apologize for coercing thousands of women to work as sex slaves for its World War II military.
Though largely symbolic, the nonbinding resolution has caused unease in Japan and added tension to an otherwise strong alliance. Officials in Tokyo say their country's leaders, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have apologized repeatedly for the Imperial Japanese Army's forcing of women to work in military brothels in the 1930s and 1940s.
The resolution's supporters, however, say Japan has never assumed responsibility fully for the treatment of the women.
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