Abe Shinzo, then Japan’s prime minister, is seen behind a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing former “comfort women,” who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, near the ...
A South Korean court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Japanese government by a group of South Korean "comfort women" who were forced to work in brothels serving Japanese soldiers during World ...
Seoul — Wartime sex slaves from South Korea, euphemistically known as "comfort women," won their first legal victory against the Japanese government in a landmark ruling handed down Friday in Seoul.
Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo ...
Gil Won-ok, a victim of the Japanese military sexual slavery system, has passed at 97. Now, only seven surviving “comfort women” remain. South Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced ...
On December 28, 2015, the South Korean and Japanese governments announced an Agreement on Comfort Women, without showing the text of a formal agreement. Foreign ministers of the two countries read a ...
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) and the World Anti-Fascist War. Winning the war is a great victory ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - After decades of controversy, Japan apologized Monday for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II and pledged 1 billion yen - $8.3 million - for survivors.
The history of the comfort women has presented a persistent obstacle for decades in the relations between Korea and Japan, which have been characterized by cycles in which Japan alternately ...
Correction appended, Jan. 30, 03:30 EST. It was the mayor of Osaka who said that comfort women served a “necessary” role, not the mayor of Hiroshima. The article has been amended to reflect this. Did ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said he intended to stick to existing agreements with Japan tied to its colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, including one on the treatment of ...
A South Korean judge has ordered the Japanese government to pay damages to 12 victims of war-time sexual slavery, in a historic ruling over war atrocities that have strained the two countries’ ...