Takashi Uemura Holds Press Conference
Questions Concentrated on the Comfort Women Issue
January 9, 2015, Tokyo, Japan - Takashi Uemura, a former reporter of the leading Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun, points to a copy of the weekly magazine's report alleging that he fabricated "comfort women" stories during a news conference at Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Friday, January 9, 2015 Uemura scooped the testimony of a former "comfort woman" in 1991 and fabricated further that the "comfort women" had been abducted as part of women volunteer corps. Last year, Asahi admitted serious errors in many articles on the "comfort women" issue, retracting all 16 stories going back to 1980. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF -mis-