The Yomiuri ShimbunThe Asahi Shimbun’s erroneous articles on the issue of so-called comfort women made the late Seiji Yoshida famous and fueled his activities in South Korea, which were in turn reported by the daily to help spread the image of Japan as a sexual slavery state both domestically and internationally. The Asahi on Friday disclosed 12 of the 16 articles it has retracted because they were based on false statements by Yoshida, who has said he forcibly rounded up and took away local women on Jeju island, in current day South Korea, during World War II to make them comfort women for Japanese soldiers. The 12 articles included a story with the headline “I forcibly took away Korean...
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