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World : Ex-Lower House Speaker Kono, Known For Apology To "Comfort Women," Dies

TOKYO, June 10 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- Former lower house speaker and Foreign Minister Yohei Kono, known for announcing the Japanese government's landmark apology over Korean "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels, has died, people close to his family said Wednesday. He was 89.

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