There were also "comfort stations" in Myanmar ... apology recognizing the full responsibility of the then-Japanese government and military, as well as adequate reparations would protect and ...

South Korea and Japan reached agreement on the dispute over Korean women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan's ...

Being a "comfort ... Japanese soldiers in brothels near the front lines. Back in 1991, a 67-year-old Korean woman named Kim Hak-soon publicly shared her story of being forced to live in a ...

The ruling by the Seoul Central District Court, the first regarding compensation to former comfort women forced to provide sex to Japanese military personnel, is certain to further aggravate ...

The complicated history of Japan's colonial rule over Korea and the larger backdrop of World War II are the foundations of the comfort women controversy. The Japanese military is accused of ...

A South Korean court has found a university professor guilty of defamation for questioning accepted views on so-called comfort women ... forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.

Bae Ponggi, a Korean woman who became a comfort woman for the former Japanese military in 1944 ... which was turned into a comfort station, she talks about her life and relationships, her ...