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 ...

Newly released court rulings from 1938 have revealed that residents of Yeongam County, South Jeolla, were punished by Japanese colonial authorities for accusing them of the forced mobilization of ...

BERLIN — On a quiet street corner in Berlin’s Mitte district, a bronze statue of a young girl in a traditional Korean dress glitters in the sun. Her fists are clenched, her expression tense. She is ...

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 ...

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 ...

TATEYAMA, Japan -- Sister Michiko Amaha leads the way into the basement of a hilltop chapel overlooking a shelter for women who, for one reason or another, can't live on their own. Dozens of women ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - At 93, Kim Bok-dong died as she had lived for many years: at the heart of the controversy over Japan's use of forced labor in its wartime brothels. Kim, who died on Monday at a ...