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

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

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 ...

Based on this stance, the government has not participated in any trial in South Korea regarding compensation for wartime comfort women. In January 2021, the Seoul Central District Court ordered ...

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 ...

An appellate court in South Korea last month ordered Japan to compensate the 16 “comfort women,” overturning a lower court ruling that had dismissed the case. Appeals must be filed within two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Korea and Japan have reached an agreement aimed at resolving their dispute over Tokyo's wartime forced prostitution policy. An apology from Japan's prime minister and a pledge of more than ...

The agreement streamlines intelligence sharing between the U.S., Japan and South Korea about North Korean nuclear activity. It automatically renews annually unless one of the countries decides to ...

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.