This photo taken Dec. 28, 2025, shows a statue of a seated girl symbolizing "comfort women," who were forced to work in ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo ...

Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement over the long-standing issue of "comfort women," a term that describes sex slaves used by the Japanese military during World War II. Japanese Foreign ...

About 600 mostly women demonstrators, including a survivor, joined a rally in South Korean capital Seoul demanding justice and compensation for victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese military ...

BERLIN — On a quiet street corner in Berlin’s Mitte district, a bronze statue of a young girl in a traditional Korean dress glitters in the sun. Her fists are clenched, her expression tense. She is ...

SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A South Korean court ruling in favor of a group of 16 women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels was confirmed on Saturday by Japan's decision not to appeal ...

Catholics in South Korea have urged the Japanese government to offer a sincere apology to the comfort women forced into sexual slavery by its imperial army during World War II. The National Catholic ...