23 overturned a lower court ruling and ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to 16 plaintiffs, including former “comfort women” of the Imperial Japanese Army. In the lawsuit ...

Thousands of "comfort women" were drawn from Korea, and the issue has long driven a political wedge between Tokyo and Seoul. Getty Images The Statue of Peace in Seoul is a tribute to former ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's Supreme Court upheld on Thursday the conviction of the former head of an advocacy group ...

SEOUL--Two recent alleged monetary scandals at organizations helping former “comfort women” have raised questions here about how such entities have been handled in South Korea until now.

Yoon Mee-hyang was jailed and fined for embezzling funds meant for Korean 'comfort women' in a case that dragged on for ...

Seven former "comfort women" have died this year. Only 48 victims are still alive in South Korea, where 238 women were once registered with the government as former sex slaves. Choi Kum-seon ...

After nearly a decade of legal battles, Park was acquitted of defamation for a book that complicated the prevailing narrative on comfort women ... Accusations from a former victim of pilfered ...

Unlike the better-known "comfort women" used by Japanese soldiers until ... cemetery where up to 70 percent of the graves are ...

Unlike the better-known "comfort women" used by Japanese soldiers until the end of World War II ... Erase our story' - About six kilometres (3.7 miles) from the monkey house lies a cemetery where up ...