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 ...

SEOUL--A pair of statues erected in an idyllic botanical garden in South Korea look set to reignite a furor with Japan over the contentious wartime "comfort women" issue. The Korea Botanic Garden ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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".

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 ...

A South Korean court's recent ruling is likely to further complicate bilateral relations between the two U.S. allies. Tokyo’s pressure over the statue faced a set-back in Germany as the issue ...

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 ...