More than 75,000 U.S. troops are stationed in the two countries, and the Obama administration is looking to its two Asian allies to counter a rising China and a nuclear-armed North Korea. World War II ...

SEOUL — Japan said on Wednesday any attempt by South Korea to revise a 2015 deal meant to have resolved a row over "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels would make relations ...

This image from the early 1940s shows Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as 'comfort girls' for the troops. (Sgt. Lemon A.E., Imperial War Museum, via CNS) ...

North Korea took its ongoing misogynist attacks on South Korea President Park Geun-hye to a new low by calling her a “dirty comfort woman.” On Sunday the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a ...

Seoul, South Korea – Lee Yong-soo was 14 years old in 1942, when she was dragged away from her home and family by Japanese soldiers, to become a sex slave at what the military euphemistically ...

Jeannie Suk Gersen writes about how an article by the Harvard Law School professor J. Mark Ramseyer, concerning Korean “comfort women” taken by Japan during the Second World War, has raised ...