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Japan was assured by South Korea that a planned initiative by Seoul to raise global awareness of violence against women is unrelated to the thorny bilateral "comfort women" issue, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Wednesday. The South Korean Foreign Ministry explained that the Action with ...
South Korean court rejects damages suit filed by former 'comfort women' over 2015 deal with Japan
A South Korean court on Friday rejected a suit filed by 12 former "comfort women" seeking 100 million won (about $91,000) each in damages against the government over a controversial bilateral agreement with Japan. In the suit filed with the Seoul District Court in 2016, ...
A damaging personal experience with sexual assault has led one young Japanese woman to examine her country's past. The woman, who uses the pseudonym Kaori Miyake, now draws on her own hurt together with what she has learned about the experiences of so-called comfort women ...
Tokyo to host trilateral summit next week with South Korea and China ahead of Trump-Kim talks
South Korea, China and Japan will hold a trilateral summit in Tokyo next week, Seoul announced Tuesday, the latest move in a diplomatic whirlwind centered around North Korea. The gathering on May 9 will bring together the South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Japanese Prime Minister ...
Dozens of activists tried to install a bronze statue symbolizing laborers forcibly taken to Japan during its rule over the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945.
Advocacy groups blast removal of 'comfort women' statue in Manila
Advocacy groups voice outrage after a memorial to the females who were forced into brothels for Imperial Japanese soldiers before and during World War II is taken down in Manila.
Groups protest as statue honoring WWII 'comfort women' is removed from Manila promenade
A statue honoring females who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II has been quietly removed from a busy seaside promenade in the Philippine capital, angering women's groups. Manila City Hall said in a statement that the bronze statue of ...
A new memorial dedicated to the Philippines "comfort women" forced into Japan's military brothels before and during World War II was removed Friday night, days after suspicions surfaced that it was being targeted for demolition. The bronze statue of a blindfolded Filipino woman, erected in ...
Japan's foreign minister to visit South Korea next week before Moon-Kim summit
Taro Kono is arranging his first visit to South Korea next week as foreign minister, in a trip that will see him to try to influence the upcoming summit between the North and South Korean leaders, government sources said Monday. Kono plans to meet South ...
Japan to host early May summit with China and South Korea: sources
Japan, China and South Korea have agreed in principle to hold a trilateral summit in early May, possibly from May 8 to 9, several diplomatic sources said Tuesday. The three-way summit was last held in November 2015 in Seoul. At the meeting to be chaired ...
Japan to invite Chinese Premier Li Keqiang for three-day visit in May
The visit will coincide with a trilateral summit involving South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is likely to be snubbed over the “comfort women” issue.
South Korean president lashes Japan over 'comfort women' issue
Japan, “the perpetrator, must not declare (that the issue) is over,” said Moon, describing the women’s treatment as an inhumane crime.
