Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Ceremony to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation, in Seoul SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee ...

These acts marked the initial steps toward the colonization of the Korean Peninsula. From then on, Japanese imperialism ...

The Korean comfort woman statue in Glendale was unveiled last month, reigniting the conversation about former sex slaves of Japanese soldiers during World War II. Tomorrow, August 15, marks the 68th ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. At a memorial in Glendale on Saturday, Korean American groups will be paying tribute to one ...

A legal dispute has emerged over whether the remaining funds from the 2015 bilateral agreement on Japan's wartime sexual ...

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 ...

About 600 mostly women demonstrators, including a survivor, joined a rally in South Korean capital Seoul demanding justice and compensation for victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese military ...

“We weren’t liberated. The war isn’t over. This is our war.” Lee Ok-seon, 97, a former victim of the Japanese military’s “comfort women” system of sexual slavery and a human rights activist who passed ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in described Japan's wartime use of "comfort women" as a "crime against humanity" on Thursday in some of his strongest comments yet, sparking an ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court for the first time on Friday ordered Japan to compensate 12 women who were forced to work in its wartime brothels, a ruling that drew a rebuke from Tokyo and ...

President Donald Trump’s meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung took an unexpected turn Monday when the U.S. leader decided to bring up the topic of forced prostitution. The White House ...