During a White House meeting in 2025, President Trump unexpectedly raised the sensitive "comfort women" issue with South ...

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

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said he intended to stick to existing agreements with Japan tied to its ...

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 ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression ...

Comfort women were often girls as young as 11 years old. According to some testimonies, the women were raped as many as 30 to 40 times a day. Their services required a fixed price by soldiers who ...

Groups supporting Filipino women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II held a rally in ...

Kennedy noted that Japan "largely ignored and denied" allegations about the comfort women system for decades. In 1995, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama apologized for what took place.

Former South Korean "comfort woman" Lee Yong-soo (center) speaking to reporters on April 21 following a court ruling that rejected a lawsuit filed against the Japanese government over wartime ...

July 6 (UPI) -- Japanese far-right protesters calling for the severing of diplomatic relations with South Korea disrupted a "comfort woman" exhibit at a municipal gallery in central Japan ...

In 1993, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono issued a formal apology to former comfort women and acknowledged Japan’s responsibility for their suffering.