Japanese conservatives are taking the offensive in the battle over World War II sex slaves — and it seems likely to do them more harm than good. Some 300 legislators from around Japan have sent a ...

Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea. She was sent to an ...

It’s good news, of course, that the Japanese government has agreed to acknowledge the plight of the comfort women; the tens of thousands of women, many of whom who were Korean, who were forced ...

TOKYO -- Japan's practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II had a little-known sequel: After its surrender -- and with tacit approval from U.S. occupation authorities -- ...

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 (Reuters) - A South Korean political vacuum and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's concerns about his conservative political base have rekindled a feud over wartime history, just as tension ...