More than 75,000 U.S. troops are stationed in the two countries, and the Obama administration is looking to its two Asian allies to counter a rising China and a nuclear-armed North Korea. World War II ...

Japan’s Trafficking of Sex Slaves in World War II Unites North Korea and South Korea . As Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un beat the drum for war, the shared legacy of World War II "comfort women ...

On December 28, 2015, Japan and South Korea signed a landmark agreement over the former’s wartime sexual exploitation of Korean “comfort women.” Japan formally apologized and contributed 1 ...

Japan said on Wednesday any attempt by South Korea to revise a 2015 deal meant to have resolved a row over "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels would make relations ...

North Korea took its ongoing misogynist attacks on South Korea President Park Geun-hye to a new low by calling her a “dirty comfort woman.” On Sunday the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a ...

In 2015, Japan signed an agreement giving $8.3 million to the few surviving comfort women. But South Korea's new president, Moon Jae-in, now says it's something his people "cannot emotionally accept." ...

The history of the comfort women has presented a persistent obstacle for decades in the relations between Korea and Japan, which have been characterized by cycles in which Japan alternately ...

SEOUL — Japan said on Wednesday any attempt by South Korea to revise a 2015 deal meant to have resolved a row over "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels would make relations ...