Donald Trump brought up the painful subject of "Comfort Women" when speaking with South Korea's president. The post Trump ...

The group, which is committed to raising awareness about sex trafficking, organized the event to recognize and honor the ...

Ahead of this year’s International Memorial Day for Comfort Women, Sixth Tone sat down with Su Zhiliang to learn more about ...

1 of 4 | The issue of comfort women, the euphemism for sex slaves used by Japan during World War II, has remained a deeply contentious issue between Seoul and Tokyo.

A statue commemorating so-called comfort women during World War II is displayed in a residential area of Berlin in October 2020. (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press) ...

“The whole issue of the women. Comfort women,” Trump remarked, seated beside Lee. “Very specifically, we talked and that was a very big problem for Korea, not for Japan. Japan was, wanted to go, they ...

Invoking a new U.S. law, and reflecting a change in international attitudes toward wartime sex crimes, a group of so-called comfort women -- Koreans and other Asians held as sex slaves for the ...

During a White House meeting in 2025, President Trump unexpectedly raised the sensitive "comfort women" issue with South ...

In its 16-page ruling in a sex slavery case, the court acknowledged that Japanese soldiers had abducted two teenage Chinese girls and forced them to work as sex slaves for months, contradicting ...

LOS ANGELES — The entire Japanese government, not just the military, was involved in the decision to provide sex slaves, euphemistically called "comfort women," for soldiers before and during ...

With her death, the living comfort women victims fell to 49. The comfort women refers to Korean women coerced into sex slavery at Japanese military brothels during the World War II.

Japan, under diplomatic fire for appearing to sidestep responsibility for forcing women to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers, said on Wednesday that the government stood by a 1993 apology ...