SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It appears simple enough. A new statue has gone up at St. Mary's Square in San Francisco. It depicts three girls looking upwards and an older woman standing nearby. But this ...
At the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum last week, a group of people gathered around a small exhibit commemorating the life of Grandma Lee Ok-seon, who was one of the many victims of sexual ...
What exactly are they afraid of? Fear that historical truths will be exposed. The "comfort women" system was a state crime ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Warning: This story contains details of sexual assault that some readers might find distressing. Jimmy Li peeled back the protective film on a wooden shipping container sent from Tianjin, China, to ...
BEIJING--Bereaved family members of former wartime “comfort women” have for the first time filed a lawsuit in Chinese courts ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - The Seoul government has released rare video footage of Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War Two, the first time moving images have been shown ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - The Seoul government has released rare video footage of Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War Two, the first time moving images have been shown ...