Taiwan president Ma urges Japan to apologize for using sex
slaves during WWII   Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou Sunday urged
Japan to apologize for using sex slaves from across Asia during
World War II, local media reported.  Ma made the call at a
conference in Taiwan on sexual slavery attended by elderly women
from Taiwan, South Korea and the Philippines who had been forced
into prostitution by the Japanese military during the war.
“Historical mistakes can be forgiven, but the lessons of history
should not be forgotten,” Ma said, according to the state-run
Central News Agency.  “I feel that such an apology and
compensation can sometimes be (most powerful).”  Time is running
out as the number of surviving sex slaves — referred to
euphemistically as “comfort women” by Japan during the war — is
falling rapidly due to old age.  In Taiwan, a movement
advocating the rights of former comfort women emerged two
decades ago, when a total of 58 former sex slaves came forward,
but the number is now down to eight, accordi