With popular support, the Japan-South Korea comfort women agreement seems likely to succeed.

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 ...

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 ...

A Seoul High Court ruling that orders Japan to compensate former “comfort women” will likely be ignored by Tokyo and probably won’t strain bilateral relations, Japanese officials said.

Now, only seven surviving “comfort women” remain. South Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced in a statement Sunday that Gil had died, noting that during her life she had ...

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 ...

The plurality of comfort women were Japanese, not Korean or Chinese. Most comfort women were in their late teens or early 20s. The total number was more likely 20,000. The average duration of a ...

He added that he will discuss more about comfort women during a news conference scheduled for Thursday. He said the U.N. is dealing with both South Korea and Japan over the sexual slavery issue ...

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Lee Yong-soo, an outspoken South Korean victim of Japan's wartime military sexual slavery, euphemistically called "comfort women," waves in front of a hearse carrying the coffin of Gil Won-ok ...