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

SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a ...

South Korea and Japan reached agreement on the dispute over Korean women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan's ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are officially 64 surviving comfort women in South Korea today, out of the tens of ... removing a controversial private comfort-woman statue that is located in front of the Japanese embassy ...

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 ...

SEOUL--A South Korean citizens group that has criticized Japan for decades over the “comfort women” issue now finds itself accused of misappropriating donations that were intended for the ...

Surviving women had reacted angrily to Ms Park's 2013 book The Comfort ... South Korea, and many Koreans want to see compensation and apologies. A row broke out earlier this year over a statue ...

SEOUL--Two recent alleged monetary scandals at organizations helping former “comfort women” have raised questions here about how such entities have been handled in South Korea until now.

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 ...