Once colonised by Japan, East Asian nations still bear scars from its wartime sexual slavery system. Thousands of women, ...

On the count of three, “Frieden” — the German word for “peace” — echoed through a crowd of 50 people gathered on a sunny Saturday afternoon in B ...

A woman visits the exhibition of the Crimes of Japanese "Comfort Women" System at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing ...

The statue symbolizes the estimated 200,000 comfort women forced into sexual slavery to serve Japan’s armed forces during the early 20th century.

Reversing an earlier order to remove a statue symbolising Korean women in Japanese wartime military brothels, authorities in central Berlin said on Tuesday they will allow the installation to ...

10/01/2020 A Korean citizens' group is aiming to raise awareness of women forced to work in military brothels with a new memorial. But Japan has said the controversial statue is out of context and ...

The comfort women issue has bedeviled relations between Japan and South Korea for around thirty years. South Korea insists that Japan has not truly apologized, not even in the 2015 Agreement on ...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 14: Artist Kim Eun-sung and Kim Seo-kyung, who have installed comfort woman statue look around in a bus ahead of the 72nd Independence Day on August 14, 2017 in Seoul ...

Two new statues placed at the Korea Botanical Garden were meant to memorialize a disturbing chapter in Japanese and South Korean history: The abuse of Korean “comfort women,” who for decades ...

The Japanese government on Tuesday reacted angrily to a pair of newly-erected statues in South Korea that appeared to depict Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kneeling and bowing to a “comfort ...

Japan on Tuesday strongly criticized a statue installed in South Korea showing a man resembling Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bowing to a "comfort girl", a name given to women forced into sex slavery ...

The Japanese government reacted angrily on Tuesday to a statue in South Korea that appears to depict Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, kneeling and bowing to a seated "comfort woman," a ...