European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday March 28 2007 stars and stripes Page 7 Friday off Couron store name address Yoke bldg 1r 3f 16 Wakamatsu Cho Yokosuka Kanagawa 2380007 0468206887 to Square 2f 6918 har Machida Tokyo 1940013 042710 1161 Roppo Ngi Plaza 1f 2f 3126 Roppo Ngi Mina Toku Tokyo 10600320354127555 ism Lucei Yokohama eximae bldg if 1113 kit Saiwai Nishik Yokohama 22000040452904755 Jinnan bldg 2f 1193 Jinnan Shib Yaku Tokyo 15000410354593555 Cross Gate Cross Gate 3f 1167 Sakur Gicho Takaku Yokohama 23100670452220691 thank you join us in thanking Navy Exchange for donating free copies of stars and stripes to select military and support personnel in Yokosuka Negishi and Ike go to subscribe to stars and stripes please Call 2434777 or email Navy Exchange sponsored papers on March 28 2007 new Exchange your Navy family store your Hometown newspaper in the world japanese Leader apologizes to Wii Comfort women by Hiroko Tabuchi the associated press Tokyo prime minister Shinzo Abe under criticism for denying that Japan forced women to work As sex slaves Dur ing world War ii apologized monday i express my sympathy to Ward the Comfort women and apologize for the situation they found themselves in Abe told a parliamentary debate using a euphemism used by japanese politicians to refer to former sex slaves i apologize Here and now As prime minister he said Abe triggered International juror earlier this month by saying there was no evidence that women were coerced into sexual service in the world War ii Era righting politicians have in recent weeks made renewed efforts to push for an official Revi Sion of a landmark apology offered by a senior government offi Cial in 1993 conservative ruling party lawmakers argue that the women were professional prostitutes and were paid for their ser vices and maintain that the Mili tary authorities were not directly responsible for the establishment or running of the brothels abes earlier denial of coercion Drew intense criticism from China and South Korea which accuse Japan of failing to fully atone for wartime invasions and atrocities Abe on monday rebuffed criticism in the us Media for his efforts to Champion the cause of japanese citizens kidnapped by North korean agents decades ago while refusing to own up to japans own past kidnappings Korea abductions and the Comfort women Issue Are a completely different matter Abe said also monday a japanese court rejected demands for compensation of about million by a group of chinese forced to work As slave labourers at a japanese mine during world War ii an offi Cial said Eranga sri lankan Hospital staff carry a wounded Soldier for treatment at a Hospital about 30 Miles North of sri Lankas capital Colombo 3 killed As rebel bombs hit sri lankan Airport the associated press Colombo sri rebels launched their first air strike in the nearly quartered Cade conflict with sri Lankas government using at least one Small plane to bomb an air base outside the capital monday and killing three airmen officials said tamil Tiger rebels said the overnight raid which also injured 16 personnel at the base about 20 Miles Northwest of Colombo was aimed at halting what they called indiscriminate Aerial bombing of tamil areas and warned of More attacks the rebels dropped three bombs the defense ministry said in a statement no aircraft on the ground were damaged but three airmen were killed and 16 injured the ministry said one bomb did not explode the rebels staged a series of Sui cide bombings on the same air base and at an adjacent International Airport in july 2001 destroying six civilian jets More than a dozen military planes and killing six Security personnel hours after mondays attack air Force fighter planes bombed Tami held areas in Northern Wanni District the tigers said in an email there were no causalities said the statement adding civilian property and farm lands were destroyed in the attack the military did not immediately comment
