His televised address as prime minister delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender set a marker for ...

Emma Pei Yin’s debut novel about three women during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong is a powerful story of resistance ...

Correction appended, Jan. 30, 03:30 EST. It was the mayor of Osaka who said that comfort women served a “necessary” role, not the mayor of Hiroshima. The article has been amended to reflect this. Did ...

The Seoul High Court rendered a decision on Thursday that ordered the Japanese government to compensate each of the former “comfort women” who initially brought a lawsuit in the Seoul Central District ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — South Korea’s government is pushing forward a plan to resolve its decades-long quarrel with Japan over the compensation for forced-labor victims during World War II. A ...

The Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday dismissed a suit for compensation brought by South Korean women forced to work in “comfort stations”—brothels operated by the Japanese military before and ...

SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A South Korean court ruling in favor of a group of 16 women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels was confirmed on Saturday by Japan's decision not to appeal ...

During her time in the U.S., Takaichi “worked briefly in Washington for Patricia Schroeder, a feminist congresswoman from the ...

Japanese vlogger Hayato Kato's 1.9 million followers are used to his funny clips about exploring China, where he has been living for several years. But on 26 July he surprised them with a sombre one. ...