Funeral for comfort woman victim A portrait of Lee Ok-seon, a victim of Japan's sexual enslavement, is displayed on an altar ...

Former comfort woman Lee Ok-seon speaks during a ceremony at the House of Sharing, a shelter for victims of Japan's wartime ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were forced to work as sexual slave labor in Japanese military brothels during World War II. Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s ...

SEOUL - A South Korean victim of sex slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II died on Sunday, reducing the ...

SEOUL (Kyodo) -- A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to the son of a former ...

SHANGHAI -- A 96-year-old survivor of the Japanese army's World War II-era "comfort women" system passed away on Wednesday in ...

Two visitors look at boards with introductions about the "comfort women" in a museum named Women in Peace and War in Tokyo, Japan, August 1, 2005. The museum opened to public on Monday ...

Born in 1924 in Muju, 183 kilometers south of Seoul, Gil Gap-soon was taken to Nagasaki, Japan, in 1941 at the age of 17 and forced to live as a comfort woman. She died in 1998 at the age of 74 ...

The ministers will hold a one-day meeting in Seoul Monday to discuss the issue of “comfort women” forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II, and other matters.

Descendants of comfort women victims from the Japanese colonial period won a domestic damages lawsuit against the Japanese government. This is the third time a domestic court has recognized the ...