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 ...

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 ...

“We don’t expect it to be raised. But the position of the Philippines on this issue is that compensation claims by former comfort women are considered to be already settled as far as the gover ...

Of the 47 former comfort women who were alive when the agreement was signed, 35 would receive 100 million won (9 million yen, or $66,330) each under this arrangement. However, some former comfort ...

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 ...

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

However, she was expelled from the party in 2021 after former Korean “comfort woman ... in donations for “comfort women” and unlawfully receiving 65.2 million won in government subsidies.

Slated for demolition, the graffiti-covered building close to the inter-Korean border was once a "monkey house", a clinic for sex workers forced to serve US soldiers protecting Seoul from North ...

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 ...