In Capitalists Must Starve — a novel by Park Seolyeon, translated from Korean by Anton Hur — a labor activist climbs to the ...

A new debate has been unleashed about Japan's wartime sex slaves and the weight of history, amid the year 2018 ...

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 ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo ...

His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for ...

There are two separate stories in The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp by J. Mark Ramseyer of Harvard Law School and Jason M. Morgan of ...

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 ...

“We weren’t liberated. The war isn’t over. This is our war.” Lee Ok-seon, 97, a former victim of the Japanese military’s “comfort women” system of sexual slavery and a human rights activist who passed ...

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 -- ...

There's a fascinating tiff brewing between Japanese and U.S. diplomats after Hillary Clinton reportedly corrected a State Department official who referred to women drafted into prostitution by the ...

The Gyeongnam Region Japanese Military Comfort Women History Museum Construction Promotion Committee held a press conference at the Gyeongnam Provincial Government Press Center on the 5th, raising ...