Six former "comfort women" joined an international activist meeting in Tokyo Saturday to demand Japan formally atone for sexual slavery in its wartime military brothels, an emotive legacy still ...

It’s good news, of course, that the Japanese government has agreed to acknowledge the plight of the comfort women; the tens of thousands of women, many of whom who were Korean, who were forced ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A Harvard University professor has ignited ...

Before his final mass in South Korea on August 18, Pope Francis met with seven elderly ladies who had been Comfort Women. As teenagers during World War II they were trafficked by Imperial Japan to be ...

Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement over the long-standing issue of "comfort women," a term that describes sex slaves used by the Japanese military during World War II. Japanese Foreign ...

TOKYO -- Japan's practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II had a little-known sequel: After its surrender -- and with tacit approval from U.S. occupation authorities -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joseph L. Choe ’17 is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School and Mindy G. Nam is a graduate of Harvard Law School. In 2015, then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gave a speech at the Harvard ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — 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 ...