Tokyo, June 10 (Jiji Press)--Yohei Kono, former speaker of Japan's House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, who is also known to have written a landmark 1993 statement over wartime comfort women, died on Monday at the age of 89, people close to him said
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Japan's ex-LDP leader Yohei Kono dies at 89
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