Plans to erect a statue in New Zealand symbolising the so-called comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan ...

New Zealand officials rejected on Wednesday an application to install a statue commemorating so-called “comfort women” ...

Local authorities have rejected a New Zealand park installation of a statue marking World War II atrocities by Japanese aggressors, following public feedback and opposition from the Japanese embassy.

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - JANUARY 25: (CHINA OUT, SOUTH KOREA OUT) The new chairman of public broadcaster Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) Katsuto Momii speaks during a press conference on January 25, 2014 in ...

I was very pleased to see the “Comfort Women” Resolution, which has enjoyed widespread support throughout Congress, pass by voice vote. Beginning in the 1930s, the Imperial Government of Japan ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's planned statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two will likely reflect his view that Japan's "comfort women" system of wartime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Survivors of Japan's wartime sexual slavery and their families have renewed their calls for Chinese courts to accept their ...

New Zealand officials rejected on Wednesday an application to install a statue commemorating so-called "comfort women" ...

Thousands of women from Korea, China and southeast Asia are believed to have been forced or coerced into Japan's wartime ...