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 ...
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Ex-'comfort woman' urges gov't to act to receive apology from Japan
One victim of the Japanese military's sexual slavery appealed to the government during the 1,720th weekly rally held near the ...
A South Korean court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Japanese government by a group of South Korean "comfort women" who were forced to work in brothels serving Japanese soldiers during World ...
July 6 (UPI) --Japanese far-right protesters calling for the severing of diplomatic relations with South Korea disrupted a "comfort woman" exhibit at a municipal gallery in central Japan, according to ...
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 ...
Failing to teach what the wartime state did only emboldens the forces of misogyny and racism. Abe Shinzo, then Japan’s prime minister, is seen behind a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing former ...
HACKENSACK, N.J. — Four years ago, noticing plaques at the county courthouse commemorating slavery, the Holocaust and other atrocities, Korean American community leader Chejin Park struck upon the ...
Why the bronze figure of a girl in Germany is infuriating the Japanese government. In Berlin, a “Statue of Peace” has angered Japanese officials. It commemorates over 200,000 girls and women from 14 ...
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) and the World Anti-Fascist War. Winning the war is a great victory ...
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 ...
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‘Comfort woman’ survivor Gil Won-ok remembered as tenacious, caring women’s rights advocate
“They bought me for 20 won and I followed them to get my father out of prison.” In 1940, Gil Won-ok, a 12-year-old girl ...
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