ADAMS — “No shoes, no name, no face, no freedom. No pride, no future, no hope. No life. I never was a comfort woman. I never was your comfort girl.” So says the powerful 90-minute song cycle “Comfort ...

Warning: This story contains details of sexual assault that some readers might find distressing. Jimmy Li peeled back the protective film on a wooden shipping container sent from Tianjin, China, to ...

Why we’re still dealing with a deadly and tragic problem that never went away. There are an estimated 29 million women in modern slavery, including some form of sex trafficking and forced marriage, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A young girl sits on stage, her hair in plaits, her hands in fists. For a year, the 60-kilogram bronze statue representing Chinese ...

This year, China’s core scholars on “comfort women” — women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army in World War II — published two career-defining books. One, “A Comprehensive ...

POHANG, South Korea – Each day, 97-year-old Park Pil-geun sits on a well-worn green chair in the shade of her veranda, watching the occasional car pass by her home in rural Wolpyeongri, a village that ...

Correction appended, Jan. 30, 03:30 EST. It was the mayor of Osaka who said that comfort women served a “necessary” role, not the mayor of Hiroshima. The article has been amended to reflect this. Did ...

For Sinmin Pak, the death of her parents — her father in 2011 and her mother in 2014 — left a hole in her life. Pak’s three children had grown up and left home, and the time she hoped to spend with ...