US President Donald Trump on Monday drew attention to the sensitive issue of “comfort women” during his White House meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, a discussion that otherwise ...

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 ...

Ming Gao is affiliated with Australian Catholic University. In April 1941, a group of Japanese invading forces in China gang-raped Zhao Runmei in northern Shanxi province. The soldiers had first ...

The comfort women controversy has dogged Tokyo–Seoul relations since the early 1990s, but Japan’s wartime network of ‘comfort stations’ or military brothels was located mainly in China. Though the ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo ...