The late former Japanese Prime Minister Murayama Tomiichi is recognized as a "conscience-driven leader who reflected on past history through his statements." President Lee Jae-myung’s special ...

Somewhere between 20,000 and 300,000 women, mainly from the Korean Peninsula, were trafficked into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during the Second World War: the so-called ...

A statue of a girl symbolizing the victims of Japanese wartime sexual slavery, euphemistically referred to as comfort women, located in Jecheon, North Chungcheong, is seen with a sign that reads ...

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 ...

Dozens of women who worked in the sex trade in South Korea are seeking an apology and compensation for the rights abuses they suffered while catering to American G.I.s. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from ...