With Lee’s death, the number of surviving victims of the “comfort women” system registered with the Korean government falls ...

The funeral altar for Lee Ok-seon, a victim of the Japanese military sexual slavery during the World World II, has been set up in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, following her passing on May 11. She was 97 ...

Japan reach breakthrough settlement on WWII sex slaves South Korea and Japan reached a breakthrough settlement of $8.3 million to resolve a decades-long dispute regarding Korean women forced into ...

Descendants of comfort women victims from the Japanese ... contradicts international law and agreements between Japan and South Korea." They also summoned the South Korean ambassador to Japan ...

Jeju Haenyeo — which translates to "women of the sea" — begin diving for seafood at around the age of 15, gathering abalone, ...

SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- The family of a late comfort woman has won a damages suit filed against the Japanese government in South Korea, a local court said Friday.

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

The family of a late comfort woman has won a damages suit against the Japanese government in South Korea, a local court ... for compensating comfort women victims and their families.

SEOUL (Kyodo) -- A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to the son of a former "comfort woman" over her treatment in military brothels during World War II.