a women’s rights activist and Korean survivor of Japan’s “comfort women” system of sexual slavery, entreated the country to not remove a memorial in Berlin commemorating victims of the ...

A U.S. content creator who faced backlash for kissing a statue symbolizing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery in ...

With popular support, the Japan-South Korea comfort women agreement seems likely to succeed.

Acting South Korean President Han Duck-soo visited the memorial altar for the late Pope Francis on Tuesday to pay tribute to ...

SEOUL--A South Korean court issued a landmark ruling Jan. 8 ordering the Japanese government to pay damages to 12 former “comfort women” for wartime criminal acts committed “in a planned and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.