Ms. Gil was one of about 240 so-called comfort women from South Korea who had publicly spoken out about their abuse at the hands of the Japanese military from the 1930s through World War II ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were forced to work as sexual slave labor in Japanese military brothels during World War II. Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s ...

In total, 200,000 ‘comfort women’ are estimated to have endured ... in which they detailed their abuse at the hands of Japanese soldiers. The complainant called for reparations and the ...

Bae Ponggi, a Korean woman who became a comfort woman for the former Japanese military in 1944, testifies for the first time in Okinawa in 1975, after Okinawa was returned to the mainland.

SEOUL--A South Korean court ruling in favor of a group of 16 women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels ... Japan to compensate the 16 “comfort women,” overturning ...

But winning over South Koreans, whose criticism doomed the comfort women agreement ... mechanism under which the women, who were forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers before and during ...