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 ...

Korea-Japan agreement on "comfort women" victims This photo taken Dec. 28, 2025, shows a statue of a seated girl symbolizing "comfort women," who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military ...

A Japanese lawmaker Thursday said wartime sex slaves forced to work for Japan's Imperial Army were "professional prostitutes", before he was forced to retract the remarks and issue an apology, local ...

Analysts say Manila is unlikely to back the surviving victims of sex slavery, fearing it could jeopardise billions in ...

President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday condemned a recent spate of vandalism targeting memorial statues honoring victims of Japan ...

Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement over the long-standing issue of "comfort women," a term that describes sex slaves used by the Japanese military during World War II. Japanese Foreign ...

Historians and educators from across Japan issued a joint statement on May 25 saying that, "The forced recruitment of 'comfort women' as sex slaves should be seen as recruitment 'against their will.'" ...

Japanese conservatives are taking the offensive in the battle over World War II sex slaves — and it seems likely to do them more harm than good. Some 300 legislators from around Japan have sent a ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — South Korea’s government is pushing forward a plan to resolve its decades-long quarrel with Japan over the compensation for forced-labor victims during World War II. A ...

Survivors of Japan's wartime sexual slavery and their families have renewed their calls for Chinese courts to accept their landmark lawsuits and launch investigations as the 80th anniversary of the ...