constantly fearing the Japanese." Yet she considers herself lucky because she got married to a farmer and raised a family. Many other Filipina comfort women suffered discrimination in their ...

During World War II, the Japanese imperial authorities abducted, coerced, tricked and sometimes recruited hundreds of ...

This article explores how social media distorts public perception of the comfort women issue, contrasts it with the depth ...

However it was criticised by victims as being insufficient. Japan has minimised the topic of comfort women in its post-WW2 narrative, says Professor Mary McCarthy of Drake University, who ...

An appellate court in South Korea last month ordered Japan to compensate the 16 “comfort women,” overturning a lower court ruling that had dismissed the case. Appeals must be filed within two ...

SEOUL--South Korean President Moon Jae-in said a recent ruling by the Seoul Central District Court ordering the Japanese government to pay damages to 12 former “comfort women” took him by ...

At these mines, hundreds of Koreans were forced to work under abusive and brutal conditions during World War II ... “comfort women,” and the Koreans who were mobilized and forced to work in ...

she is also pushing for more efforts to recognize the plight of comfort women victimized by the Japanese occupation during World War II. • 'Time's running out': Gov't urged to speed up ...

A weekly protest by the victims of sexual slavery by Japan during World War II marked its 22nd anniversary Wednesday, with ...

President Park Geun-hye renewed a call Sunday for Japan to own up to its wartime atrocities, including the sexual enslavement ...