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 ...

South Korean activists estimate that up to 200,000 women were forced to work in brothels for WW2 ... deal with Japan was reached without consultation with the survivors - known as "comfort women ...

SHANGHAI -- A 95-year-old survivor of the Japanese army's "comfort women" system during World War II, passed away on Saturday in Central China's Hunan province, leaving only eight registered ...

120: Amenities in the Japanese Armed Forces ... “Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II.” “I am, of course, proud of the crucial role that my own ‘Revelation’ of the contents ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wars in East Asia-beginning with armed struggle between China and Japan in 1894-95 to determine the fate of Korea and culminating with eight years of bitter conflict during World War II-claimed tens ...

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