SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a ...

A South Korean court has found a university professor guilty of defamation for questioning accepted views on so-called comfort women ... earlier this year over a statue commemorating the issue.

The Korean government ... not specify the number of statues in foreign countries. The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime ...

He added that if the former comfort women agree to the removal of the statue, he would follow their decision. Yoon Mee-hyang, one of the co-presidents of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women ... victims. South Korea would refrain from criticizing Japan regarding the issue and to work to remove a memorial statue for the victims.

SEOUL--A South Korean citizens group that has criticized Japan for decades over the “comfort women” issue now finds itself accused of misappropriating donations that were intended for the ...

Park’s research reveals a more complex and nuanced reality behind the comfort women system, contradicting the simplified victim-perpetrator narrative often promoted in South Korea. She emphasizes the ...