This week, women gathered in downtown Chicago to advocate for justice for one of the darkest and least talked about legacies of World War II, the forced slavery of “comfort women.” “Their stories are ...

ADAMS — “No shoes, no name, no face, no freedom. No pride, no future, no hope. No life. I never was a comfort woman. I never was your comfort girl.” So says the powerful 90-minute song cycle “Comfort ...

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 ...

BERLIN — On a quiet street corner in Berlin’s Mitte district, a bronze statue of a young girl in a traditional Korean dress glitters in the sun. Her fists are clenched, her expression tense. She is ...

This year, China’s core scholars on “comfort women” — women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army in World War II — published two career-defining books. One, “A Comprehensive ...

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Korean woman who was forced to work at a Japanese wartime military brothel and later lost a Supreme Court case seeking compensation from the Japanese government has died in Japan ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — Sanya Lopez just can’t help but cry every time she talks about her experience of portraying a comfort woman in the GMA primetime series “Pulang Araw.” Sanya plays the role of ...