One victim of the Japanese military's sexual slavery appealed to the government during the 1,720th weekly rally held near the ...

Japan’s government on Monday defended its stance on wartime sexual slavery and described South Korean court rulings ordering Japanese compensation as violations of international law, after U.N.

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 ...

Park Yuha, an honorary professor at Sejong University and author of the novel "Comfort Women of the Empire," which sparked controversy for describing ...

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 ...

A former South Korean "comfort woman" holds the hand of a statue symbolising "comfort women" at the Seoul Comfort Women Memorial in Seoul, South Korea, June 29, 2021. KIM HONG-JI / REUTERS More than ...

Former comfort woman, Lee Yong-soo, left, who was forced to serve for Japanese troops as a sex slave during World War II, attends a rally demanding full compensation and an apology for wartime sex ...

More than 100 South Korean women forced to work as prostitutes for US soldiers stationed in the country have filed a landmark lawsuit accusing Washington of abuse, their lawyers said Tuesday.

Known as the “Camptown women”, they claim they were subjected to human rights abuses, forced into regular STD testing, held in isolation, and sometimes subjected to violent treatment at these ...

The politics of Aichi Triennale are anything but incidental. In August 2019, the art festival located in the titular prefecture closed one of its exhibits just three days after the event opened.

During his White House meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on August 25, 2025, US President Donald Trump unexpectedly raised the sensitive issue of “comfort women.” The discussion, which ...