Korea and Japan reached a historic agreement Monday, to resolve disputes over Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women ...

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 ...

SEOUL--A pair of statues erected in an idyllic botanical garden in South Korea look set to reignite a furor with Japan over the contentious wartime "comfort women" issue. The Korea Botanic Garden ...

The Korean government seemingly failed to ... The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime sexual slavery victims — after ...

Beside her is an empty chair. 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 ...

effectively removing it from Korea’s national discussion and diplomatic agenda. The Park government also agreed to begin discussions on removing a controversial private comfort-woman statue that ...

Surviving women had reacted angrily to Ms Park's 2013 book The Comfort ... South Korea, and many Koreans want to see compensation and apologies. A row broke out earlier this year over a statue ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were ... to work to remove a memorial statue for the victims. The strange pact was criticized by South Korea’s current president but signed ...

The statue symbolizing a Korean "comfort woman" in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul is expected to remain the main impediment for improving relations between Korea and Japan, despite a ...