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Once colonised by Japan, East Asian nations still bear scars from its wartime sexual slavery system. Thousands of women, ...
The unveiling marked the official installation of a statue commemorating the victims of Japan’s wartime military sexual slavery, euphemistically referred to as “comfort women.” ...
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 ...
At least 147 such stations are known to have existed in the southern island prefecture, where women -- mostly from Korea and Okinawa -- were used for sex by soldiers.
South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies discriminate against older workers, forcing them to retire from main jobs and into low-paid, precarious work. Inadequate social security compounds ...
During the Asian and Pacific War (1937-45), the Japanese government mobilized approximately 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these victims ...
Soaring (Narsha),” an exhibition at American University Museum, gathers contemporary works by dozens of artists in the D.C.
BTS, the anointed kings of K-pop, have promised a new album and world tour by next year. Anupama Yadav reflects on how the ...