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

SEOUL - A South Korean victim of sex slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II died on Sunday, reducing the ...

The funeral altar for Lee Ok-seon, a victim of the Japanese military sexual slavery during the World World II, has been set ...

Women and dried pollock need to be beaten every three days for better taste” – so goes an old saying that was common in South Korea in the 1960s when Choi Mal-ja was growing up in a small city in the ...

The agreement streamlines intelligence sharing between the U.S., Japan and South Korea about ... regarding Korean women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

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.

who claimed that donations received by the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan were not going to the former comfort women.

SEOUL: Senior officials from South Korea and Japan will meet ... in Seoul Monday to discuss the issue of “comfort women” forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II ...

Committee members Yukio Okamoto and Shinichi Kitaoka reported that the generally held view among foreign intellectuals is that the “Japanese military ... South Korea about the comfort women ...

South Korea and Japan have reached an agreement aimed at resolving their dispute over Tokyo's wartime forced prostitution policy. An apology from Japan's prime minister and a pledge of more than ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who ... and Japanese military was involved. Most were from areas occupied by Imperial Japan, particularly China and Korea, but also the Philippines.