“She said the war ended in 1945 but the war did not end for us,” said Phyllis Kim, who leads the L.A.-based Comfort Women ...

Women in Pyongyang are competing fiercely to join "home industry primary organizations" within North Korea's Socialist ...

SEOUL (Kyodo) -- A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to the son of a former "comfort woman" over her treatment in military brothels during World War II.

Descendants of comfort women victims from the Japanese colonial ... In her lifetime, she participated in activities with the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military ...

The Cheongju District Court's decision on Friday over the case, where the son had sought 200 million won ($140,000), was the third known South Korean ruling in favor of comfort women, following ones ...

SEOUL - A South Korean victim of sex slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II died on Sunday, reducing the ...

With Lee’s death, the number of surviving victims of the “comfort women” system registered with the Korean government falls ...

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.

In December, 2015, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye reached an agreement to settle the “comfort women” dispute. Tokyo agreed to pay $8.3 million to a fund ...

The funeral altar for Lee Ok-seon, a victim of the Japanese military sexual slavery during the World World II, has been set up in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, following her passing on May 11. She was 97 ...

SEOUL: Senior officials from South Korea and Japan will meet Sunday ... day meeting in Seoul Monday to discuss the issue of “comfort women” forced to work in Japanese military brothels during ...

Lee Ok-seon, a former sex slave for Japanese World War II troops, speaks in Gwangju, Gyeonggi, in Aug. 12, 2023 during an ...