About 600 mostly women demonstrators, including a survivor, joined a rally in South Korean capital Seoul demanding justice and compensation for victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese military ...

Newly released court rulings from 1938 have revealed that residents of Yeongam County, South Jeolla, were punished by Japanese colonial authorities for accusing them of the forced mobilization of ...

The bronze statue outside the Japanese embassy in Busan (photo via @lucycheon/Instagram) A statue commemorating the thousands of Korean women forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese imperial ...

In the years leading up to and including World War II, Japanese soldiers enslaved women from South Korea, Indonesia, China and other parts of Asia and forced them to work as sex slaves for troops ...

During his White House meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on August 25, 2025, US President Donald Trump unexpectedly raised the sensitive issue of “comfort women.” The discussion, which ...

SEOUL, Aug 21 (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 ...

Dozens of women who worked in the sex trade in South Korea are seeking an apology and compensation for the rights abuses they suffered while catering to American G.I.s. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from ...

Under rules that the U.S. military and South Korean officials worked out, comfort women had to be tested twice a week, according to the women and unsealed documents. The U.S. military conducted random ...

Rick Halperin, SMU Human Rights Program director and co-founder of Human Rights Dallas, examines an exhibit before moderating a panel on comfort women at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ...