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

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 ...

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".

Tokyo’s pressure over the statue faced a set-back in Germany as the issue continues to loom large in Japan-South Korea interactions. With popular support, the Japan-South Korea comfort women ...

A petition calling for the removal of the so-called "peace statue" has ... Marano said "comfort women," called by Japanese authorities, were highly paid prostitutes from Korea, not the victims ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEOUL--South Korean President Moon Jae-in said a recent ruling by the Seoul Central District Court ordering the Japanese government to pay damages to 12 former “comfort women” took him by ...

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.