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Canada’s parliament on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution condemning Japan’s wartime enslavement of Asian women for the sexual gratification of its soldiers. The Canadian House of Commons in the resolution called on the Japanese government to admit its enslavement of over 200,000 women from neighboring Asian countries during World War II. It urged Tokyo to pay compensation to victims and to clarify in textbooks that the Japanese military committed the war crime.

Japan had reportedly asked Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper to help block passage of the resolution, saying it did everything necessary for the victims, the so-called former comfort women. The U.S. and Dutch parliaments approved similar resolutions in July and November.

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