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 file photo taken in July 2025 shows a "comfort women" statue installed on publicly owned land in the Mitte district of Berlin. (Kyodo) BERLIN (Kyodo) -- A district in Berlin has ordered a statue ...

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 ...

At the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum last week, a group of people gathered around a small exhibit commemorating the life of Grandma Lee Ok-seon, who was one of the many victims of sexual ...

New York City will no longer describe its park bathrooms as “comfort stations,” citing the euphemism’s association with the “comfort women” conscripted into sexual slavery during World War II. In an ...

Ming Gao is affiliated with Australian Catholic University. In April 1941, a group of Japanese invading forces in China gang-raped Zhao Runmei in northern Shanxi province. The soldiers had first ...

Survivors of Japan's wartime sexual slavery and their families have renewed their calls for Chinese courts to accept their landmark lawsuits and launch investigations as the 80th anniversary of the ...