The European Parliament has adopted Friday a resolution calling on the Japanese government to formally apologize and compensate women forced into sexual slavery during World War Two.

The European lawmaking body passed the resolution in its general meeting held in Strasbourg, France, with 54 members of the 57 in attendance supporting it.

The resolution urges Tokyo to acknowledge its forcing more than 100-thousand Asian women into sexual slavery and to officially apologize for the atrocities, as well as compensating the victims.

The parliament, in its resolution, also urges Japan to educate future generations on its acts of forced sex slavery and calls on the Japanese Diet to remove all obstacles barring it from compensating the victims.

The European body is the fourth to adopt such a resolution after the U.S. first passed a similar motion in July, which was followed by the lower House of the Dutch Parliament and the Canadian Parliament.