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Yohei Kono
Coverage of Yohei Kono in the Nexus archive.
- Wartime apology author and Japan-China ‘bridge’ Yohei Kono dies at 89
Yohei Kono, a political figure known for his 1993 apology to 'comfort women' forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II, died at 89. He was a moderate voice in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and served as a backchannel between Japan and China.
- Yohei Kono, who apologized for Japan’s wartime sexual abuses of ‘comfort women,’ dies at 89
Yohei Kono, a Japanese politician who apologized for Japan’s wartime sexual abuses of 'comfort women,' has died at 89.