It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were forced to work as ... of sexual slavery into Japan’s occupied colonies in Asia. As a believer in the Yamato race theory, Kishi thought ...

Such a new Asian core may be far in the future, and such optimism unfamiliar. But the agreement on comfort women offers the best opportunity in a generation for Asia’s leading democracies to ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the ... diplomat with experience in East Asia, asking not to be identified.

Historians say there were at least tens of thousands of Asian comfort women working in the Japanese military brothels. The new comfort women settlement, announced in late December, has been called ...

Sometimes minors, these women were called "comfort women" and were raped repeatedly in brothels near the front lines. With only a handful of survivors still alive in China, our correspondents met ...

A South Korean court has found a university professor guilty of defamation for questioning accepted views on so-called comfort women. The term is a euphemism for women who were forced to work in ...

SEOUL--Two recent alleged monetary scandals at organizations helping former “comfort women” have raised questions here about how such entities have been handled in South Korea until now.