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 ...

South Korea and Japan reached agreement on the dispute over Korean women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan's ...

A South Korean court has found a university professor guilty of defamation for questioning accepted views on so-called comfort women ... earlier this year over a statue commemorating the issue.

There are officially 64 surviving comfort women in South Korea today, out of the tens of ... removing a controversial private comfort-woman statue that is located in front of the Japanese embassy ...

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 ... not specify the number of statues in foreign countries. The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime ...

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.

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 ...

He added that if the former comfort women agree to the removal of the statue, he would follow their decision. Yoon Mee-hyang, one of the co-presidents of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted ...

Somali's disrespectful actions toward a comfort women statue in South Korea sparked outrage and led to public assaults.

(Bloomberg) -- A South Korean court ordered Japan to compensate ... Japan to compensate what are euphemistically known as “comfort women,” in a case brought on behalf of 12 of the woman.

However earlier that month, a South Korean professor, Park Yu-ha, sparked public debate when her 2013 book disputed the commonly held beliefs about the role of Koreans as "comfort women".