In April 1941, a group of Japanese invading forces in China gang-raped Zhao Runmei in northern Shanxi province. The soldiers had first killed Zhao’s foster parents in front of her, stabbing her father ...

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 ...

During his White House meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on August 25, 2025, US President Donald Trump unexpectedly raised the sensitive issue of “comfort women.” The discussion, which ...

A statue of a girl symbolizing the victims of Japanese wartime sexual slavery, euphemistically referred to as comfort women, located in Jecheon, North Chungcheong, is seen with a sign that reads ...

BERLIN — On a quiet street corner in Berlin’s Mitte district, a bronze statue of a young girl in a traditional Korean dress glitters in the sun. Her fists are clenched, her expression tense. She is ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo ...