Police have launched an investigation into the leader of a far-right civic group who held protests across the country calling ...

The issue of "comfort women" has long been a thorn in ties between South Korea and Japan. It's a euphemism for women -- mostly Koreans -- who were forced to work in Japan's brothels before and during ...

Rick Halperin, SMU Human Rights Program director and co-founder of Human Rights Dallas, examines an exhibit before moderating a panel on comfort women at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ...

The Hankyoreh met up with María del Pilar Álvarez to talk about her new book “Halmoni: La revolución de las abuelas coreanas, ...

A statue commemorating so-called comfort women during World War II is displayed in a residential area of Berlin in October 2020. (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press) On a quiet street corner in ...

Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea. She was sent to an ...

SEOUL, July 2 – Fighting disease, death and disillusionment, members of South Korea’s rapidly dwindling sisterhood of surviving “comfort women” say they are facing the twilight of their lives with ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had ...

SEOUL, Feb. 16 (UPI) --A 92-year-old Korean survivor of wartime sexual slavery by the Japanese called on Seoul and Tokyo on Tuesday to bring the divisive diplomatic issue of so-called comfort women to ...

This week, women gathered in downtown Chicago to advocate for justice for one of the darkest and least talked about legacies of World War II, the forced slavery of “comfort women.” “Their stories are ...