Motoyuki Nomura (R), a Japanese pastor, weeps after playing a Korean song on the flute at the Peace Monument, a statue of a young girl that symbolizes sex slaves known as "comfort women," in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Feb. 13, 2012. Nomura, 81, who hails from Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture and worked for the relief of poor people in South Korea in the 1970s and '80s, made the visit as a gesture of his own atonement for Japan's wartime atrocities. The monument was dedicated to now-elderly Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II. Former comfort women, along with their supporters, have called for an apology and compensation from the Japanese government, which has yet to offer either for the war crimes. (Yonhap)
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