Based on this stance, the government has not participated in any trial in South Korea regarding compensation for wartime comfort women. In January 2021, the Seoul Central District Court ordered ...

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

Now, only seven surviving “comfort women” remain. South Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced in a statement Sunday that Gil had died, noting that during her life she had ...

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

SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- The family of a late comfort woman has won a damages suit filed against the Japanese government ...

SEOUL: Senior officials from South Korea and Japan will meet Sunday ... day meeting in Seoul Monday to discuss the issue of “comfort women” forced to work in Japanese military brothels during ...

The family of a late comfort woman has won a damages suit against the Japanese government in South Korea, a local court said Friday. The Cheongju District Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, Lee ...

A powerful and emotional documentary about Korean women forced into sexual ... dramatically combines the testimony of former comfort women who demand justice for the crimes against humanity ...

The agreement streamlines intelligence sharing between the U.S., Japan and South Korea about North Korean nuclear activity. It automatically renews annually unless one of the countries decides to ...

Alastair Gale was Asia security correspondent and Japan editor for The Wall Street Journal, based in Tokyo. He covered ...

The Cheongju District Court's decision on Friday over the case, where the son had sought 200 million won ($140,000), was the third known South Korean ruling in favor of comfort women, following ones ...