Kim Soon-ok, Park Du-ri, Moon Pil-gi, Gil Won-ok, Kang Duk-kyung, Lee Yong-soo, Lee Ok-seon, Kim Soon-duk, Kim Kun-ja, Shim Dal-yeon, Park Ok-ryeon, Song Shin-do, Kim Yong-suk (North Korea), Kwak ...

A statue commemorating so-called comfort women during World War II is displayed in a residential area of Berlin in October 2020. (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press) On a quiet street corner in ...

The Friedensstatue, or Statue of Peace in Berlin, Germany, which commemorates the more than 200,000 girls and women from 14 countries who were sexually enslaved as “comfort women” during the ...

At the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum last week, a group of people gathered around a small exhibit commemorating the life of Grandma Lee Ok-seon, who was one of the many victims of sexual ...

Correction appended, Jan. 30, 03:30 EST. It was the mayor of Osaka who said that comfort women served a “necessary” role, not the mayor of Hiroshima. The article has been amended to reflect this. Did ...

Ming Gao is affiliated with Australian Catholic University. In April 1941, a group of Japanese invading forces in China gang-raped Zhao Runmei in northern Shanxi province. The soldiers had first ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's planned statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two will likely reflect his view that Japan's "comfort women" system of wartime ...

About 600 mostly women demonstrators, including a survivor, joined a rally in South Korean capital Seoul demanding justice and compensation for victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese military ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Sex Slaves from World War II Ordered Compensation from Japan Last week, a South ...

Rick Halperin, SMU Human Rights Program director and co-founder of Human Rights Dallas, examines an exhibit before moderating a panel on comfort women at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's planned statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two will likely reflect his view that Japan's "comfort women" system of wartime ...