“The whole issue of the women. Comfort women,” Trump remarked, seated beside Lee. “Very specifically, we talked and that was ...

An estimated 50,000 to 200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery in countries occupied by the Japanese army during WWII ...

South Korea commemorates Comfort Women Memorial Day on Aug.14, a day ahead of Liberation Day, when Korean Peninsula defeated ...

UN special rapporteurs in 1996 and 1998 were explicit: while Japan’s gestures were notable, true resolution demanded far more — clear acknowledgment of responsibility, full disclosure of truth, ...

It’s not the first time the statue has ignited public tensions over comfort women: In 2011, it was erected near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul by a group of survivors and their supporters.

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Jeannie Suk Gersen on the Korean and Japanese translations of her recent article on a lawsuit by survivors of sexual slavery during Japan’s occupation of Korea during the Second World War.

Twenty years later, the activists marked a milestone: In May 2014, the first commemorative memorial for comfort women, based on a private and public partnership, was built in Fairfax County, Virginia.

It took until 1991 for Kim Hak-sun, a former comfort woman, to come forward to tell her story publicly. She was the first to do so. As Oshagan put it, “There were 50 years of silence in Korea.” ...