Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue commemorating so-called comfort women during World War II is displayed in a residential area of Berlin in October 2020.

Right-wing civic group leaders' alleged defamation of comfort women, a euphemism for women victimized by sexual enslavement ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had ...

ON April 24, historical researcher Dana Lee made at the Manila Elks Club in Makati City a presentation on the history — and current situation — of the thousands of teenage girls and young women who ...

In January, I was outlining an article I hoped to write about a recent judgment by a South Korean court ordering Japan to pay compensation for atrocities committed during the Second World War against ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - JANUARY 25: (CHINA OUT, SOUTH KOREA OUT) The new chairman of public broadcaster Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) Katsuto Momii speaks during a press conference on January 25, 2014 in ...

The last known Taiwanese “comfort woman” who survived sexual slavery during Japanese occupation has passed away at the age of ninety-two. An estimated 200,000 women were forced to work in Imperial ...

In this Friday, Oct. 9, 2020 file photo, a statue commemorating so-called “comfort women” is displayed at a residential area in central Berlin, Germany. Credit: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber A recent ...