Yoshiaki Yoshimi, the top scholar on Japan’s system of military sexual slavery, talks to the Hankyoreh about his new book and ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Thousand Endured Sexual Slavery by Imperial Japan The last known Taiwanese ...

Mitte, Berlin’s central borough, passed a resolution on December 1 allowing a “comfort women” statue to be maintained until September 2021, rejecting the Japanese government’s bid to remove it.

The recent controversy over a Harvard professor’s article showcases how limited the space for debate and discussion on the issue has become. We, scholars based in South Korea, call for debating not ...

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 ...

TOKYO — When Miki Dezaki decided to make a documentary for his graduate thesis, he examined a question that reverberates through Japanese politics: Why, 75 years later, does a small but vocal group of ...

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 ...

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 ...

During his White House meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on August 25, 2025, US President Donald Trump unexpectedly raised the sensitive issue of “comfort women.” The discussion, which ...