As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944, about a year before the ground battle against ...

During Japan’s imperial wars in Asia, it forced thousands of girls and women to become sex slaves for Japanese troops. It called these girls and women, many of whom were Korean, “comfort women.” ...

Who were comfort women? The term refers to nearly 200,000 girls and young women from South Korea, China, the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan who were kidnapped and forced into sex slavery for the ...

South Korea, Japan reach deal over wartime sex slaves 00:45. The plight of the "comfort women" has been a key point of friction between the two Asian nations for more than half a century.

Japan helped establish the Asian Women’s Fund in 1995, which is supported by government funds and provides assistance to comfort women. The AWF has received donations from Japanese people ...

It's part of a larger battle Japan is waging in connection with the comfort women. The Japanese government apologized for the practice in 1993, and in 2015 it agreed to pay about $8.3 million to ...

On Tuesday, the South Korean government wrapped up a months-long process of reviewing a landmark 2015 agreement with Japan over the “comfort women” issue. In the agreement, Japan apologized ...

A delegation of Japanese city council members brought a sign that says “Children need heart-warming monuments” to the comfort-women statue at Central Park in Glendale on Thursday, January 16 ...

comfort women-suit. SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- The family of a late comfort woman has won a damages suit filed against the Japanese government in South Korea, a local court said Friday.