SEOUL, July 2 – Fighting disease, death and disillusionment, members of South Korea’s rapidly dwindling sisterhood of surviving “comfort women” say they are facing the twilight of their lives with ...

The last known Taiwanese “comfort woman” who survived sexual slavery during Japanese occupation has passed away at the age of ninety-two. An estimated 200,000 women were forced to work in Imperial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue commemorating so-called comfort women during World War II is displayed in a residential area of Berlin in October 2020.

Last week, a South Korean appellate court ordered Japan to compensate the remaining Korean ‘comfort women’ who were forced to work in military brothels during World War II. These women, who had been ...

Social media platforms have transformed our interaction with historical and political issues, making previously obscure subjects broadly available. But there is a price for this democratization of ...

This is an interrogation report produced by the Psychological warfare division, Office of War Information (OWI). It is one of two important documents produced by the Allied Forces regarding the ...

President Donald Trump's meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung took an unexpected turn Monday when the U.S. leader decided to bring up the topic of forced prostitution. The White House ...

In Berlin, a “Statue of Peace” has angered Japanese officials. It commemorates over 200,000 girls and women from 14 countries forced into sex work by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War.

The recent controversy over a Harvard professor’s article showcases how limited the space for debate and discussion on the issue has become. We, scholars based in South Korea, call for debating not ...

The comfort women issue has emerged as the single most divisive aspect in Japan’s wartime past. One action group in South Korea, the epicenter of the issue, has played an outsized role in bringing the ...

Okinawa Prefecture, commonly referred to as Okinawa, is located at the southwestern tip of Japan and is made up of over 100 islands, including the main island of Okinawa, which is home to the largest ...