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 ...

In December, 2015, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye reached an agreement to settle the “comfort women” dispute.

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

Japan and South Korea are marking the 60th anniversary of the normalization of their diplomatic relations on Sunday, as both sides go through a time of political uncertainty and growing tension.

a women's group in Okinawa released a "comfort station map" showing the sites of 121 such wartime facilities in the prefecture that had been located by that time through surveys. In August of the ...

Groups from Korea and Japan called for the Japanese government and businesses that profited from forced Korean labor to apologize to and compensate victims, while also calling for indemnification for ...

South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies discriminate against older workers, forcing them to retire from main ...

South Korea’s Age-based Policies and Older Workers’ Rights,” documents how three age-based employment laws and policies – the ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said on Friday his government would focus on easing regulations and accelerate working-level tariff talks with Washington as part of broader support for ...

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. After World War II, however ...