Once colonised by Japan, East Asian nations still bear scars from its wartime sexual slavery system. Thousands of women, ...

On the count of three, “Frieden” — the German word for “peace” — echoed through a crowd of 50 people gathered on a sunny Saturday afternoon in B ...

A woman visits the exhibition of the Crimes of Japanese "Comfort Women" System at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing ...

Japan has since offered atonement money twice for the so-called “comfort women,” an earlier semi-private fund and a second one unilaterally dissolved by former South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s ...

A girl statue symbolizing the victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, euphemistically called 'comfort women,' has been erected in Italy for the first time, a local activist group said Sunday.

ROME -- A girl statue symbolizing the victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, euphemistically called "comfort women," has been erected in Italy for the first time, a local activist group said ...

The statue symbolizes the estimated 200,000 comfort women forced into sexual slavery to serve Japan’s armed forces during the early 20th century.

Tokyo’s pressure over the statue faced a set-back in Germany as the issue continues to loom large in Japan-South Korea interactions.

If you happen to hop on a bus in South Korea, you might just come across one of these female statues. The statues are meant to pay tribute to "comfort women" -- women in occupied countries who ...

A new “comfort women” memorial statue will be unveiled in Seoul this week, when Korea marks International Memorial Day for Comfort Women amid its intensifying diplomatic and trade conflict with Japan, ...

The Filipino comfort women, the last living threads that connect the Filipinos to that painful part of history, do not have much time left.