Victims in the nation's capital include women from South Korea, China and Latin America.

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Earlier this year 16 women in a village in Guangxi Province in south west China divorced their husbands.

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But he provoked anger in China and South Korea when he said there was no evidence that women were forced to become sex slaves by the Japanese army during World War II - a statement he later apologised for.

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