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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Historians and educators from across Japan issued a joint statement on May 25 saying that, "The forced recruitment of 'comfort women' as sex slaves should be seen as recruitment 'against their will.'" ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

Why the bronze figure of a girl in Germany is infuriating the Japanese government. In Berlin, a “Statue of Peace” has angered Japanese officials. It commemorates over 200,000 girls and women from 14 ...

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 ...