SEOUL (Kyodo) -- A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to the son of a former ...

Born in 1924 in Muju, 183 kilometers south of Seoul, Gil Gap-soon was taken to Nagasaki, Japan, in 1941 at the age of 17 and forced to live as a comfort woman. She died in 1998 at the age of 74 ...

Dozens of protesters held a rally in central Tokyo on Wednesday evening, calling on Japanese society to face up to the ...

The agreement streamlines intelligence sharing between the U.S., Japan and South ... regarding Korean women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

Tokyo, April 25 (Jiji Press)--A South Korean court Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to the family of a former "comfort woman," who provided sex to troops of the now ...