SHANGHAI -- A 96-year-old survivor of the Japanese army's World War II-era "comfort women" system passed away on Wednesday in ...

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

Descendants of comfort women victims from the Japanese colonial period won a domestic damages lawsuit against the Japanese government. This is the third time a domestic court has recognized the ...

A funeral procession carries a portrait of Lee Ok-seon, a victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, euphemistically called ...

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

Born in 1924 in Muju, 183 kilometers south of Seoul, Gil Gap-soon was taken to Nagasaki, Japan, in 1941 at the age of 17 and forced to live as a comfort woman. She died in 1998 at the age of 74 ...

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 ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were forced to work as sexual slave labor in Japanese military brothels during World War II. Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s ...

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.

The ministers will hold a one-day meeting in Seoul Monday to discuss the issue of “comfort women” forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II, and other matters.

Agoda recently unveiled the top women’s travel trends in Asia revealing that women across Asia are charting a different ...

and has held 10 such exhibitions across Japan on the country's "wartime perpetration" - including the Nanjing Massacre, "comfort women," Unit 731, chemical warfare, and the Battle of Okinawa.