SEOUL - A damaging personal experience with sexual assault has led one young Japanese woman to examine her country's past, and now she is combining her own hurt with what she learns about the ...

NEW YORK - An English translation of Kim Soom's 2016 novel "Han myong" (one person), the first South Korean novel centered on so-called comfort women forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels, has ...

All manner of discussion has arisen as a result of the recent special coverage by The Asahi Shimbun with regard to the comfort women issue. One argument that has been raised by some in relation to the ...

The plaque on a museum dedicated to Taiwanese “comfort women,” who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, was unveiled on Tuesday, International Women’s Day ...

A tweet of The New York Times (May 2, 2023): Three South Korean women who claimed to have been "comfort women" shared their stories, revealing details about their experiences. The first woman reported ...

The issue of comfort women started drawing much international attention in the 1990s because of a confluence of trends, including the end of the Cold War, democratization in Asia, heightened ...

Liu Huang A-tao (劉黃阿桃), the first Taiwanese woman to accuse the Japanese government of driving thousands of Taiwanese women into sex slavery during World War II, died on Thursday at the age of 90. Liu ...