The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime sexual slavery victims — after a bill was submitted on punishment for acts of ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort ... World War II. Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was “extremely regrettable” that comfort women ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue ... On Monday, the statue had a yellow woollen scarf around the neck and a brown cap ...

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 ...

On a quiet street corner in Berlin's Mitte district, a bronze statue ... called comfort women who were forced or tricked into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese military during World War ...

Korea and Japan reached a historic agreement Monday, to resolve disputes over Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women ...

Culture and history: Why is there a row over a 'comfort women' memorial in Berlin ... Skip next section More on Culture from around the world ...

A South Korean court has found a university professor guilty of defamation for questioning accepted views on so-called comfort women ... earlier this year over a statue commemorating the issue.