SEOUL--A pair of statues erected in an idyllic botanical garden in South Korea look set to reignite a furor with Japan over the contentious wartime "comfort women" issue. The Korea Botanic Garden ...

Tokyo’s pressure over the statue faced a set-back in Germany as the issue continues to loom large in Japan-South Korea interactions. With popular support, the Japan-South Korea comfort women ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were ... to work to remove a memorial statue for the victims. The strange pact was criticized by South Korea’s current president but signed ...

The Korean government seemingly failed to ... The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime sexual slavery victims — after ...

However earlier that month, a South Korean professor, Park Yu-ha, sparked public debate when her 2013 book disputed the commonly held beliefs about the role of Koreans as "comfort women".

He added that if the former comfort women agree to the removal of the statue, he would follow their decision. Yoon Mee-hyang, one of the co-presidents of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted ...

They want us to interrogate South Korea instead ... years and helped her bring the Statue of Peace to Italy. “She knew about the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ issue before going to ...

A petition calling for the removal of the so-called "peace statue" has ... Marano said "comfort women," called by Japanese authorities, were highly paid prostitutes from Korea, not the victims ...

A South Korean court's recent ruling is likely to further complicate bilateral relations between the two U.S. allies. Tokyo’s pressure over the statue faced a set-back in Germany as the issue ...

SEOUL--South Korean President Moon Jae-in said a recent ruling by the Seoul Central District Court ordering the Japanese government to pay damages to 12 former “comfort women” took him by ...