“She said the war ended in 1945 but the war did not end for us,” said Phyllis Kim, who leads the L.A.-based Comfort Women ...

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

From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may ...

In December, 2015, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye reached an agreement to settle the “comfort women” dispute. Tokyo agreed to pay $8.3 million to a fund ...

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 ...

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.

Descendants of comfort women victims from the Japanese colonial ... In her lifetime, she participated in activities with the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...