Once forced into this imperial prostitution service, the “comfort women” catered to between twenty and thirty men each day. Stationed in war zones, the women often confronted the same risks as ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Japan’s apology has ended a long and very bitter dispute. Can the two nations now learn to work together? The news out of Tokyo and Seoul on the eve of the New Year was nothing short of blockbuster.

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 ...

Binondo is the center of activities in Manila during the annual Chinese New Year celebrations where thousands gather for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...