It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were forced to work as sexual slave labor in Japanese military brothels during World War II. Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s ...

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 ...

Lew Seok-choon, a former Yonsei University professor, speaks to reporters at the Supreme Court in Seoul on Feb. 13, 2025, ...

The statue, which commemorates the "comfort women" of World War II, has embroiled the local government in a minor diplomatic controversy. A South Korean court's recent ruling is likely to further ...

An appellate court in South Korea last month ordered Japan to compensate the 16 “comfort women,” overturning a lower court ruling that had dismissed the case. Appeals must be filed within two ...

Japan’s apology has ended a long and very bitter dispute. Can the two nations now learn to work together? The news out of Tokyo and Seoul on the eve of the New Year was nothing short of blockbuster.

The group also criticized the 2015 Japan-South Korea bilateral agreement on settling the comfort women issue on grounds that it does not acknowledge the Japanese government’s legal responsibility.

To Germany's Korean diaspora — 50,000 strong — the statue is a poignant tribute to the 200,000 so-called comfort women who were forced or tricked into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese ...

Being a "comfort woman" was long considered shameful. As a result, the exact number of victims remains unknown. Between 1932 and 1945, hundreds of thousands of women – around 200,000, according ...