““Teikoku no Ianfu” (Comfort women of the empire) is an ambitious piece of work that has received praise by some but also been so reviled by others that the author faces legal action in South Korea.”
“A Japanese vice foreign minister told a U.N. meeting on the status of women on Tuesday that Japan is taking a sincere approach to the issue of “comfort women,” referring to violence against females involving the Japanese military during World…
“Two groups related to South Korea and China are jointly planning to put up statues of girls as symbols of “comfort women” who were forced to work at wartime Japanese military brothels, sources said Thursday.”
“Japan and South Korea share values,” Merkel reportedly told Okada. “It’s better to resolve the . . . issue properly.”
“A group of women in South Korea and the United States are preparing to sue the Japanese government, claiming their human rights were breached when they were forced to become “comfort women,” those who were forced to provide sex for…
Kpop group fans raise money to support the History Museum of Japanese Military Comfort Women, Kwangju-city, Kyonggi-province.
“Ban Zhongyi, a Chinese journalist living in Japan, still remembers the shock he felt when he first heard the testimonies of former Chinese “comfort women” at a rally in Tokyo in 1992.”
“The U.S. government believed the “comfort women” issue was behind South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s August 2012 visit to islets at the heart of a territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea, a U.S. document revealed on Tuesday.”
Kayoko Kimura: “Why do so few people in Japan make the link between the wider issue of sexual violence in conflict and the comfort women?… As the 70th anniversary of the end of the war approaches, Japan needs to be reminded that…