The former “comfort woman” used her voice and her stories to endeavor to bring an end to wartime violence against women ...

She led a tireless campaign for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her — ...

Gil Won-ok, a former sex slave for Japanese troops who campaigned to raise awareness of the World War II atrocity, died ...

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SEOUL--South Korean prosecutors on Monday indicted the former leader of an advocacy ... rather than to help the “comfort women.” Prosecutors said in a statement, Yoon was charged on eight ...

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 ...

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 court recognized that her work constituted an academic analysis aimed at presenting a historically grounded perspective, not an attempt to defame or insult former comfort women. The ruling was a ...

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 ...

He added that if the former comfort women agree to the removal of the statue, he would follow their decision. Yoon Mee-hyang, one of the co-presidents of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted ...