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Japan to recall ambassador over ‘comfort women’ statue THE ASAHI SHIMBUN January 6, 2017 at 18:05 JST http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201701060062.html Japan agreed to pay 1 billion yen ($8.62 million) to a foundation that Seoul helped to establish for assistance to the former comfort women who were forced to provide sex to Japanese troops before and during World War II.