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 ...

This week, women gathered in downtown Chicago to advocate for justice for one of the darkest and least talked about legacies of World War II, the forced slavery of “comfort women.” “Their stories are ...

A new Tokyo museum presses the cause of the “comfort women” of World War II who were used as sex slaves by the Imperial Army. On Friday, Amnesty International renewed appeals to compensate the women ...

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) On a quiet street corner in ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It appears simple enough. A new statue has gone up at St. Mary's Square in San Francisco. It depicts three girls looking upwards and an older woman standing nearby. But this ...

People offer a silent prayer at an altar for Gil Won-ok and Lee Ok-seon, victims of Japan's sexual enslavement who died in ...