AKIPRESS.COM - Women who say they fell victim to serious sexual exploitation during World War II want the governments to recognize their suffering and apologize, ABC reports.

Most Wednesdays 90-year-old Kim Bok Dong goes to the Japanese Embassy in the South Korean capital, Seoul, to demonstrate.

Remarkably, she has been there almost a thousand times and for one simple reason: Ms. Kim wants the Japanese government to formally apologize for its use of 200,000 comfort women or sex slaves before and during World War II.

"I've got no choice," Ms. Kim said. "I've taken out my sword and I can't put it back. I have to finish what I've started."

Many in the Japanese government are trying to say it is a fiction, that the women were not forced and went willingly to the military brothels.

Ms. Kim said that was deeply insulting: "I want Japan to repent as soon as possible and apologize and compensate so we can recover our tarnished honour," she said.

At 14 years of age, Ms. Kim said, a Japanese official with a Korean accomplice came to her poor village near the modern day city of Busan and told her they had a job for her in China making military uniforms.

She said she was part of a quota system that tricked young girls all over Korea.

Ms. Kim said she was treated like luggage and shipped around the frontlines of Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore and was forced to have sex with countless Japanese troops.

"Soldiers used to queue up," she said. "I didn't know what day it was or how it passed. In the evening I couldn't stand up, I didn't have any strength in my legs."

There are those in Japan who have apologized.

Former prime minister Murayama issued a landmark apology in 1995 and now wants the current prime minister Shinzo Abe to confront the issue tomorrow when he is expected to give a much anticipated apology to the world for Japan's wartime aggressions.

"The fact is that the government, the army, the military set up the military brothels as a necessary part of the military strategy," Murayama said. "The military ordered them to be made. The military entrusted traders, managed and cooperated with them – there is no mistake about that."

But Abe has undermined Murayama's statement and also the apology by Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yohei Kono, in 1993 that dealt directly with comfort women.

He has questioned them and ordered a review.

Members of his government argue there is no documented evidence that the girls were forced, and the military had no role procuring and managing the comfort women.