Controversy over how to teach kids about 'comfort women'

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Guidelines for California educators on how to teach history students about the use of female sex slaves by Japanese soldiers during World War II have prompted debate in Japanese and Korean communities here and abroad.

The passage has been met with celebration among Korean American groups that have campaigned to bring attention to the issue in the U.S. Meanwhile some Japanese groups consider it an unfairly negative portrayal of their home country, the newspaper said.

The guidelines recommend that the subject of "comfort women" be taught to high schoolers as an "example of institutionalized sexual slavery, and one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the 20th century."