During the Second World War thousands of women in Asia were forced to work as prostitutes for Japanese soldiers Some of them were still teenagers They were raped often beaten and abused The Japanese ...

Theater director Dimo Kim learned about “comfort women,” the mostly Korean women who were forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, when he was a high school student in South ...

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 ...

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The comfort women issue has emerged as the single most divisive aspect in Japan’s wartime past. One action group in South Korea, the epicenter of the issue, has played an outsized role in bringing the ...

We urge readers to listen to her story in her own voice. The video can be found at this link, or the transcript here. A few minutes before the start of our first international webinar last July, ...

Community members marched from the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum to Thanks-Giving Square in downtown Dallas as part of the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women on Sunday, Aug. 14, ...

CARROLLTON, Texas (Tribune News Service) – For Sinmin Pak, the death of her parents — her father in 2011 and her mother in 2014 — left a hole in her life. Pak's three children had grown up and left ...

Catholics in South Korea have urged the Japanese government to offer a sincere apology to the comfort women forced into sexual slavery by its imperial army during World War II. The National Catholic ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Thousand Endured Sexual Slavery by Imperial Japan The last known Taiwanese ...

For Sinmin Pak, the death of her parents — her father in 2011 and her mother in 2014 — left a hole in her life. Pak’s three children had grown up and left home, and the time she hoped to spend with ...