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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 ...

South Korean prosecutors on Monday indicted the former leader of an advocacy group for victims of Japanese wartime sexual exploitation on charges of fraud and embezzlement.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is nothing if not consistent. His incompetent (and unremittingly cruel) leadership extends not only to his miserable domestic record. Kim is proving to be a disaster ...

The Korean Publishers Association has canceled its decision to award the Special Contribution Award of the Korean Publishing ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -A South Korean appellate court on Thursday ordered Japan to compensate a group of 16 women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels, overturning a lower court ruling that ...

Catholics in South Korea have urged the Japanese government to offer a sincere apology to the comfort women forced into sexual slavery by its imperial army during World War II. The National Catholic ...

CARROLLTON, Texas (Tribune News Service) – For Sinmin Pak, the death of her parents — her father in 2011 and her mother in 2014 — left a hole in her life. Pak's three children had grown up and left ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — South Korea’s government is pushing forward a plan to resolve its decades-long quarrel with Japan over the compensation for forced-labor victims during World War II. A ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said he intended to stick to existing agreements with Japan tied to its colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, including one on the treatment of ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Korean woman who was forced to work at a Japanese wartime military brothel and later lost a Supreme Court case seeking compensation from the Japanese government has died in Japan ...

A building near the inter-Korean border was once a "monkey house", a clinic for sex workers forced to serve US soldiers - Copyright AFP Anthony WALLACE A building ...