Although Japan and South Korea reached a final settlement several years ago involving payments to Korean women who were forced to sexually service Japanese troops in the 1930s and '40s, the issue won't go away, and not just because the new South Korean president ...
In a speech on South Korea’s National Liberation Day, Moon urges action on long-standing issues including wartime forced labor and the issue of ‘comfort women.’
Statues symbolizing "comfort women" were installed on five buses in Seoul on Monday, giving passengers a constant reminder of the thorny issue between the Asian neighbors. The buses with the statues — symbolizing the mostly Asian women who were forced to provide sex at Japanese ...
Newly appointed Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Friday sought to differentiate himself from his more famous father, who is known for issuing the Kono statement — the government’s historic 1993 apology to the mostly Asian “comfort women” coerced into providing sex for the Imperial ...
The first leader of a foundation set up by the South Korean government to support former "comfort women" with Japanese funding announced her resignation last week at a board meeting, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday. Comfort women is Japan's euphemism for the girls ...
Support has waned in Japan and South Korea for a bilateral agreement reached in 2015 to settle a dispute over "comfort women," a joint annual opinion poll by think tanks in the two countries showed Friday. In the survey, 53.8 percent of Japanese respondents said ...
Japan has lodged a protest with South Korea about a plan to create a memorial day to commemorate the Korean females who were forced into Japan's military brothels before and during the war, a government source said Thursday. South Korea's intention is against the spirit ...
The new South Korean government is setting up a task force to examine the 2015 agreement with Japan to resolve the so-called comfort women issue “finally and irreversibly,” newspaper says.
Hong Kong's government said Thursday there are no plans to remove a pair of statues depicting the Japanese wartime sex slaves known as the "comfort women" standing in front of the Japanese Consulate in the Chinese territory. Activist Tsang Kin-shing said the bronze statues were ...
South Korea intends to build a museum in memory of "comfort women," a government minister said Monday, reigniting perennial tensions between Tokyo and Seoul. The plight of the comfort women, who were forced into sexual servitude for wartime Japanese troops, is a hugely emotional issue ...
The South Korean government has released rare video footage of Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II, the first time moving images have been shown of the "comfort women." A government-funded research team from Seoul National University found the ...
South Korea and Japan are expected to take a two-track approach to diplomacy to prevent the “comfort women” dispute from weakening their stance against North Korea.
