OLD AND WAITING | A group of women sexually abused by the Japanese during World War II is still awaiting compensation and an official apology from the Philippine government that failed to help them get reparation from Japan. But they received cash assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the second tranche of which, amounting to P10,000 each, was given on Sept. 18 in Candaba, Pampanga. (Photo by ARTCHIE CONSUELO / Contributor) CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Philippines — The Philippine government has yet to compensate or apologize to a group of elderly Filipino women, six months after the United Nations found that it failed to redress their discrimination and suffering from sexual abuses by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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