TOKYO (Reuters) - A controversial statue symbolizing "comfort women" was withdrawn from a Japanese art exhibition on Saturday after organizers received security threats, amid a resurgence of tensions ...

Abe Shinzo, then Japan’s prime minister, is seen behind a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing former “comfort women,” who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, near the ...

Seoul — Wartime sex slaves from South Korea, euphemistically known as "comfort women," won their first legal victory against the Japanese government in a landmark ruling handed down Friday in Seoul.

A South Korean court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Japanese government by a group of South Korean "comfort women" who were forced to work in brothels serving Japanese soldiers during World ...

One victim of the Japanese military's sexual slavery appealed to the government during the 1,720th weekly rally held near the ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo ...

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On December 28, 2015, the South Korean and Japanese governments announced an Agreement on Comfort Women, without showing the text of a formal agreement. Foreign ministers of the two countries read a ...

The history of the comfort women has presented a persistent obstacle for decades in the relations between Korea and Japan, which have been characterized by cycles in which Japan alternately ...

A South Korean judge has ordered the Japanese government to pay damages to 12 victims of war-time sexual slavery, in a historic ruling over war atrocities that have strained the two countries’ ...