2007-04-29 04:00:00 PDT Tokyo-- In his first visit to the United States as Japan's leader, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe quickly got on a first-name basis with President Bush and secured an invitation to ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Wednesday it will dissolve a foundation funded by Japan to compensate South Korean women who were forced to work in Japan’s World War II military brothels.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan’s government on Monday defended its stance on wartime sexual slavery and described South Korean court rulings ordering Japanese compensation as violations of ...

Japan reached an historic deal with South Korea on Monday, officially apologizing for the use of “comfort women” by the Imperial Japanese army before and during WWII. It is the first such deal between ...

Gil Won-ok, who was among tens of thousands of Korean women forced into brothels for Japanese soldiers during World War II, and who became — after decades of silence — a leading voice for greater ...

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 ...

Gil Won-ok, a victim of the Japanese military sexual slavery system, has passed at 97. Now, only seven surviving “comfort women” remain. South Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced ...