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 ...

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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 ...

Busts of late comfort women are erected at House of Sharing in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, during a commemorative event on Aug. 9, 2025. (Yonhap) (END) [We Welcome Your News Tips] We invite our ...

At a memorial in Glendale on Saturday, Korean American groups will be paying tribute to one of the last survivors of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. Ok-seon Lee died this week in South Korea at 97.