This portrait of Deng Yumin (1924-2014), a "comfort woman "from the Miao ethnic group in Hainan province, was displayed at an exhibition in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in 2016.

In 2007, parliaments of the United States, the Netherlands and Canada, as well as the European Parliament endorsed moves to condemn the "comfort women" system, and urged Japan to apologize and claim ...

This portrait of Deng Yumin (1924-2014), a "comfort woman "from the Miao ethnic group in Hainan province, was displayed at an exhibition in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in 2016.

South Koreans are no strangers to the plight of their fellow citizens, known as comfort women. Forced to serve as sex slaves during World War II, comfort women have been a controversial point of ...

A golden statue commemorating the plight of "comfort women" — a euphemism for the Korean women and girls forced by the Japanese to work as sex slaves in front-line brothels during World War II ...

Some 400,000 women in Asia were forced to serve as "comfort women" during the war, nearly half of whom were Chinese. Japanese forces opened a brothel for soldiers in Liji Alley at the end of 1937.

The issue of Japan's use of Korean, Chinese and Southeast Asian women and girls as sex slaves - euphemistically called “comfort women” - continues to alienate Tokyo from its neighbours nearly ...

In China, as elsewhere, the documenting of former comfort women’s experiences and advocacy on their behalf has owed much to grassroots campaigners and activist scholars. Zhang Shuangbing, a ...

But “these comfort women are also frontline warriors in winning dollars,” it said. Often, newcomers were drugged by their pimps to cope with the shame. Numbers and Name Tags.

Lew Seok-choon, speaking to reporters at Seoul’s Yonsei University in 2019, taught that South Korean women in Japan’s World War II-era brothels were doing the work ‘half-willingly and half ...

Funeral for late comfort woman Lee Yong-soo, an outspoken South Korean victim of Japan's wartime military sexual slavery, ...