A South Korean university professor was found not guilty of defaming the Korean women sexually enslaved by Japan during World War II through her much-disputed book on Wednesday. The Seoul Eastern ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's Supreme Court upheld on Thursday the conviction of the former head of an advocacy group representing victims of Japan's wartime sexual abuse for embezzlement and ...

Developments here and in Japan following the Korea-Japan accord on the settlement of the “comfort women” issue late last year allow little hope that the two neighbors will now be freed from their ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and China on Monday protested against Tokyo's review of a landmark 1993 apology to women, many of them Korean and Chinese, forced to work as wartime sex slaves in ...

Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea. She was sent to an ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) – Four years ago, noticing plaques at the county courthouse commemorating slavery, the Holocaust and other atrocities, Korean-American community leader Chejin Park struck upon ...

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SEOUL (Reuters) - The Seoul government has released rare video footage of Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War Two, the first time moving images have been shown ...

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 ...

A building near the inter-Korean border was once a "monkey house", a clinic for sex workers forced to serve US soldiers - Copyright AFP Anthony WALLACE A building ...