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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung took an unexpected turn Monday when the U.S. leader decided to bring up the topic of forced prostitution. The White House ...

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 ...

She campaigned for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her, mostly Korean, during World War II. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul Gil Won-ok, one ...