A South Korean civic group has appealed a Berlin administrative court's decision to order the removal of a statue symbolizing ...

A Berlin administrative court on Tuesday upheld a district order to remove the Statue of Peace, a memorial commemorating ...

A court in Germany has ordered the removal of a statue of a girl symbolizing those referred to as wartime comfort women in ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said he intended to stick to existing agreements with Japan tied to its colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, including one on the treatment of ...

The Korean comfort woman statue in Glendale was unveiled last month, reigniting the conversation about former sex slaves of Japanese soldiers during World War II. Tomorrow, August 15, marks the 68th ...

A new debate has been unleashed about Japan's wartime sex slaves and the weight of history, amid the year 2018 ...

President Donald Trump’s meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung took an unexpected turn Monday when the U.S. leader decided to bring up the topic of forced prostitution. The White House ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and Japan reached a landmark agreement on Monday to resolve the issue of "comfort women", as those who were forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels were ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Sex Slaves from World War II Ordered Compensation from Japan Last week, a South ...

South Korean prosecutors on Monday indicted the former leader of an advocacy group for victims of Japanese wartime sexual exploitation on charges of fraud and embezzlement.

Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea. She was sent to an ...

CARROLLTON, Texas (Tribune News Service) – For Sinmin Pak, the death of her parents — her father in 2011 and her mother in 2014 — left a hole in her life. Pak's three children had grown up and left ...