NAHA -- As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944, about a year before the ground battle against U.S. forces began, the Japanese military built airbases throughout ...

Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea. She was sent to an ...

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 ...

Catholics in South Korea have urged the Japanese government to offer a sincere apology to the comfort women forced into sexual slavery by its imperial army during World War II. The National Catholic ...

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Imperial Japanese Army asked the government to provide one "comfort woman" for every 70 soldiers, Japan's Kyodo news agency said, citing wartime government documents it had ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked about "comfort women" at a joint White House press conference with President Obama this week. He's been under pressure to apologize for the treatment of ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - The Seoul government has released rare video footage of Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War Two, the first time moving images have been shown ...

Efforts to redevelop a historically significant house in the Philippines to memorialize local women abused there by Japanese ...

Rick Halperin, SMU Human Rights Program director and co-founder of Human Rights Dallas, examines an exhibit before moderating a panel on comfort women at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ...

In 2011, Phan began researching Vietnamese women who had children with Japanese soldiers between 1940 and 1955. Although Japan was defeated and officially left Vietnam in 1945, some soldiers stayed ...