The education ministry on Friday approved a set of revised guidelines for high school history textbooks that mention Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japan's World War II soldiers.
Under the revised guidelines, the new textbooks will describe how Japan "intensely drafted (Korean) workers, soldiers and comfort women for the Japanese military during the Pacific War," the ministry said. The Pacific War refers to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean.
The move comes as South Korea has pressed Japan to resolve long-standing grievances over Tokyo's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, euphemistically called "comfort women." The Korean Peninsula came under the Japanese colonial rule from 1910-45. (Mainichi)
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