Takashi Uemura Holds Press Conference
Questions Concentrated on the Comfort Women Issue
January 9, 2015, Tokyo, Japan - Stern-looking Takashi Uemura, a former reporter of the leading Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun, takes notes while listening to questions during a news conference at Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Friday, January 9, 2015. Uemura scooped the testimony of a former " 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. Sakai/AFLO) AYF-mis-