Tokyo’s pressure over the statue faced a set-back in Germany as the issue continues to loom large in Japan-South Korea interactions. With popular support, the Japan-South Korea comfort women ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were ... to work to remove a memorial statue for the victims. The strange pact was criticized by South Korea’s current president but signed ...

South Korea in turn said it would look into removing the statues symbolising comfort women set up by activists outside Japan's embassy in Seoul and consulate in Busan. Activists have installed the ...

He added that if the former comfort women agree to the removal of the statue, he would follow their decision. Yoon Mee-hyang, one of the co-presidents of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted ...

SEOUL--A pair of statues erected in an idyllic botanical garden in South Korea look set to reignite a furor with Japan over the contentious wartime "comfort women" issue. The Korea Botanic Garden ...

The Korean government seemingly failed to ... The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime sexual slavery victims — after ...

An American YouTuber infamous for stunts involving a girl statue symbolizing the victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery was assaulted for the third time since his arrival in Korea. The ...

Comfort women' - a painful legacy Bad blood between Japan and Korea persists The big row over a small Australian statue Similar memorials have been placed elsewhere, most notably in South Korea.

A South Korean court's recent ruling is likely to further complicate bilateral relations between the two U.S. allies. Tokyo’s pressure over the statue faced a set-back in Germany as the issue ...

There are officially 64 surviving comfort women in South Korea today, out of the tens of ... removing a controversial private comfort-woman statue that is located in front of the Japanese embassy ...