South Korea Top Court Upholds Conviction of 'Comfort Women' Activist Over Embezzlement By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's Supreme Court upheld on Thursday the conviction of the former ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — South Korea’s government ... of Forced Mobilization by Imperial Japan. Thousands of Korean women were also forced to become sex workers for Japanese forces.

Unlike the better-known “comfort women” used by Japanese soldiers ... sanctioned brothels run from the 1950s to 1980s by the South Korean government, have received relatively limited attention.

24. Photo: AFP Unlike the better-known “comfort women” used by Japanese soldiers until the end of World War II, the tens of thousands of victims of state-sanctioned brothels run from the 1950s to ...

SEOUL, Nov 23 (Reuters) - A South Korean appellate court on Thursday ... with many surviving "comfort women" - a Japanese euphemism for the sex abuse victims - still demanding Tokyo's formal ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Sex Slaves from World War II Ordered Compensation from Japan Last week, a ...

Funeral for comfort woman victim A funeral procession carries a portrait of Lee Ok-seon, a victim of Japan's wartime sexual ...

“She said the war ended in 1945 but the war did not end for us,” said Phyllis Kim, who leads the L.A.-based Comfort Women ...

SEOUL (Kyodo) -- A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to the son of a former "comfort woman" over her treatment in military brothels during World War II.

Unlike the better-known "comfort women" used by Japanese soldiers until ... sanctioned brothels run from the 1950s to 1980s by the South Korean government, have received relatively limited attention.