Jan. 3 (UPI) --A statue dedicated to "comfort women" who were raped and assaulted in wartime has been removed in the Philippines, only two days after its unveiling. The statue of a young woman with ...

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 ...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine foreign ministry on Friday said a government panel has been formed to look into the fuss over a newly erected "comfort women" monument in Manila that has irked Japan, ...

MANILA, Philippines (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) -- Eighty years ago, the pre-recorded announcement of Emperor Hirohito on Aug. 14, 1945 verbally accepting the terms of surrender that ended World ...

Six former "comfort women" joined an international activist meeting in Tokyo Saturday to demand Japan formally atone for sexual slavery in its wartime military brothels, an emotive legacy still ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will not act on an objection by Japan to a new statue in Manila that commemorates the Filipino "comfort women" who worked in Japanese military ...

Though Japan has never apologized for using sex slaves for the Imperial Army, an international court has found the late emperor and generals guilty of crimes against humanity. President Bush has ...

Today in a U.S. Federal court, the government of Japan sought dismissal of a law suit by "comfort women" who are seeking compensation for sexual slavery. In the 1930s and 40s, women and girls from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, a new statue went up in Constitution Park in Fort Lee, N.J. It was small, only about five feet in height, but striking. A poem is etched on the stone base. The outline of a girl can be ...

The history of Taiwanese “comfort women” — whom the Japanese military forced into sexual slavery during World War II — should be listed as a specific subject in the 108 School Curriculum Guidelines, ...