SEOUL (Kyodo) -- A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to the son of a former ...

The statue, which commemorates the "comfort women" of World War II, has embroiled the local government ... continues to loom large in Japan-South Korea interactions. With popular support, the ...

A powerful and emotional documentary about Korean women forced ... Imperial Army during World War II Silence Broken dramatically combines the testimony of former comfort women who demand justice ...

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".

Japan reach breakthrough settlement on WWII sex slaves South Korea and Japan reached a breakthrough settlement of $8.3 million to resolve a decades-long dispute regarding Korean women forced into ...

SEOUL--A South Korean court issued a landmark ruling Jan. 8 ordering the Japanese government to pay damages to 12 former “comfort women ... claims from World War II were settled by a ...

referring to those who were forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II. Touching on the agreement South Korea and Japan reached in 2015 on the comfort women issue, ...

This marks the third time a Korean court has issued a ruling recognizing the Japanese government's liability for compensating comfort women victims and their families. "Both countries are ...

A South Korean court has 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 Cheongju ... ruling ...