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HISTORICAL ANGER An elderly South Korean woman who was forced into becoming a "comfort woman", providing sex for Japanese forces during World War II, screams in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul. Hundreds of riot police held off demonstrators protesting against the refusal of Japan to revise controversial history textbooks. Japan rejected South Korean government demands to revise history textbooks accused of glossing over Japan's wartime atrocities, sparking anger across South Korea. Monday, July 9, 2001. |  |