Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue commemorating so-called comfort women during World War II is displayed in a residential area of Berlin in October 2020.

The statue, which commemorates the “comfort women” of World War II, has embroiled the local government in a minor diplomatic controversy. The Friedensstatue, or Statue of Peace in Berlin, Germany, ...

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 ...

Ming Gao is affiliated with Australian Catholic University. In April 1941, a group of Japanese invading forces in China gang-raped Zhao Runmei in northern Shanxi province. The soldiers had first ...

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 ...