Newly released court rulings from 1938 have revealed that residents of Yeongam County, South Jeolla, were punished by Japanese colonial authorities for accusing them of the forced mobilization of ...
President Donald Trump’s meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung took an unexpected turn Monday when the U.S. leader decided to bring up the topic of forced prostitution. The White House ...
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 ...
At the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum last week, a group of people gathered around a small exhibit commemorating the life of Grandma Lee Ok-seon, who was one of the many victims of sexual ...
Somewhere between 20,000 and 300,000 women, mainly from the Korean Peninsula, were trafficked into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during the Second World War: the so-called ...