The “comfort women” system was established by the Japanese Imperial Army before and during World War II. Under this infamous system the Japanese government and its army abducted women from ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were forced to work as sexual slave labor in Japanese military brothels during World War II. Soon thereafter, a spokeswoman from Japan’s ...

During the Second World War thousands of women in Asia were forced ... beaten and abused The Japanese called them ianfu or Comfort Women After the war the survivors struggled to continue with ...

Although Goodman had many stories from the war and his years researching and traveling overseas, he didn’t talk much about the comfort women until 1992, when he dug out that report, Lim said.

The former comfort women then shifted their focus to filing ... to work by the Nazi regime during the closing days of World War II. In 2004, the Italian Supreme Court ordered that compensation ...

South Korea's foreign ministry has said a 2015 deal with Japan to compensate forced World War Two sex slaves failed ... with the survivors - known as "comfort women" - did not contain Japan's ...

the country has rewritten its history textbooks to downplay its own war crimes. The same forces are driving a government campaign to suppress public commemoration of comfort women overseas.

A third-party panel that examined The Asahi Shimbun’s coverage of the “comfort women” issue ... that he forcibly took away Korean women during the war. Even after a study in South Korea ...

A South Korean court has found a university professor guilty of defamation for questioning accepted views on so-called comfort women. The term is a euphemism for women who were forced to work in ...