A statue commemorating so-called comfort women during World War II is displayed in a residential area of Berlin in October 2020. (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press) On a quiet street corner in ...

Oxygen tank at her side, Isabelita Vinuya, 88, struggles as she sits up in her bed, too weak to stand and too listless to talk about the cause that animated her life the past 25 years. She organized ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- An apology from Japan's prime minister and a pledge of $8.3 million sealed a breakthrough deal Monday in a decades-long impasse with South Korea over Korean women forced into ...

The Korean comfort woman statue in Glendale was unveiled last month, reigniting the conversation about former sex slaves of Japanese soldiers during World War II. Tomorrow, August 15, marks the 68th ...

Rick Halperin, SMU Human Rights Program director and co-founder of Human Rights Dallas, examines an exhibit before moderating a panel on comfort women at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, under diplomatic fire for appearing to sidestep responsibility for forcing women to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers, said on Wednesday that the government stood by ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese academics presented on Tuesday what they said was additional evidence to prove that the military kidnapped women to serve as sex slaves during World War Two, rejecting Prime ...

There's a fascinating tiff brewing between Japanese and U.S. diplomats after Hillary Clinton reportedly corrected a State Department official who referred to women drafted into prostitution by the ...

While many politicians prefer to stick to less controversial subjects, Flushing’s Peter Koo has stepped out in favor of a proposed street renaming in his district, honoring World War II comfort women ...

Han Seong-won, trans. from the Korean by Soo Kyung Lee. Tuttle, $19.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-80485-663-8 “War does not end on the battlefields,” writes historian Seong-won in this moving and ...

Two of some 10 victims forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II and still alive in the Philippines have dismissed a proposed compensation package saying money is useless at ...

During an Oval Office Meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump brought up a painful subject from the nation’s past to illustrate why South Korea doesn’t ...