(ECNS) – Filipino "comfort women" have spent decades seeking justice for the atrocities they endured during Japan's ...

Correction appended, Jan. 30, 03:30 EST. It was the mayor of Osaka who said that comfort women served a “necessary” role, not the mayor of Hiroshima. The article has been amended to reflect this. Did ...

The push to amend the Act on Protection, Support and Commemorative Projects for Sexual Slavery Victims for the Japanese ...

A statue of a girl symbolizing the victims of Japanese wartime sexual slavery, euphemistically referred to as comfort women, located in Jecheon, North Chungcheong, is seen with a sign that reads ...

A Japanese lawmaker Thursday said wartime sex slaves forced to work for Japan's Imperial Army were "professional prostitutes", before he was forced to retract the remarks and issue an apology, local ...

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 ...

Japanese conservatives are taking the offensive in the battle over World War II sex slaves — and it seems likely to do them more harm than good. Some 300 legislators from around Japan have sent a ...

About 600 mostly women demonstrators, including a survivor, joined a rally in South Korean capital Seoul demanding justice and compensation for victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese military ...

Survivors of Japan's wartime sexual slavery and their families have renewed their calls for Chinese courts to accept their landmark lawsuits and launch investigations as the 80th anniversary of the ...