SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a ...

Catholics in South Korea have urged the Japanese government to offer a sincere apology to the comfort women forced into sexual slavery by its imperial army during World War II. The National Catholic ...

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 ...

23 overturned a lower court ruling and ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to 16 plaintiffs, including former “comfort women” of the Imperial Japanese Army. In the lawsuit ...

Gil Won-ok, a victim of the Japanese military sexual slavery system, has passed at 97. Now, only seven surviving “comfort women” remain. South Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family ...

BEIJING (SCMP): A Chinese man, known online as “Sudden Fantasy” and nicknamed “a lady killer”, has captured significant attention by sharing how he completely relies on his Japanese wife ...