A former wartime sexual slavery victim on Wednesday appealed to the Korean government to demand an apology and compensation ...

The academic debate over the history of the Asia-Pacific War and Japan’s colonial era has been largely resolved. So why does that history remain so politicized?

Takaichis Rise Raises Red Flags for South Korea-Japan Ties Despite Emphasizing Cooperation, Takaichis Hardline Stances on ...

Days before the leadership election of Japan’s governing party, Ishiba Shigeru visited Busan to meet South Korean President ...

Korea has renewed its call for Japan to squarely acknowledge its wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II in a letter to the U.N. human rights body, the document showed Tuesday.

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.

But reconstructed history cannot whitewash Japan's colonial and war crimes. Instead, it will severely impede historical reconciliation across East Asia. As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the ...

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 ...

Dozens of South Korean women forced into sex work for American soldiers stationed in the country have filed a historic lawsuit accusing the U.S. military of playing a systematic role in their abuse.

SINGAPORE: The former Kandang Kerbau Hospital (KKH) was gazetted on Wednesday (Oct 1) as Singapore's 76th national monument. This designation, which covers three blocks of the former hospital, ...

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