On her 2014 trip to Glendale, Lee worked with Kim to defend the city's monument to comfort women. The statue of a girl ...

dubbed a Statue of Peace or comfort women statue, was disclosed to the public on Stintino Beach of the Sardinia island Saturday, according to the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the ...

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

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 ...

“There are many statues of the little girl (representing comfort women), but I wanted to create ... on Japan-South Korea relations.” A South Korean official involved in foreign diplomacy ...

Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was “extremely regrettable” that comfort women statues had ... Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park ...

This marks the third time a Korean court has issued a ruling recognizing the Japanese government's liability for compensating comfort women victims and their families. "Both countries are ...

The girl in the statue was wearing chima jeogori, representing many comfort women from the Korean Peninsula, a former Japanese colony. Showing a split with the prefectural government, Nagoya Mayor ...

A South Korean court has 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. The Cheongju District ...