MANILA, Philippines (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) -- Eighty years ago, the pre-recorded announcement of Emperor Hirohito on Aug. 14, 1945 verbally accepting the terms of surrender that ended World ...

During the Second World War thousands of women in Asia were forced to work as prostitutes for Japanese soldiers Some of them were still teenagers They were raped often beaten and abused The Japanese ...

Six former "comfort women" joined an international activist meeting in Tokyo Saturday to demand Japan formally atone for sexual slavery in its wartime military brothels, an emotive legacy still ...

Dr. Sam Jamier, executive director of the New York Asian Film Festival, is having a trailblazing directorial debut with ...

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We urge readers to listen to her story in her own voice. The video can be found at this link, or the transcript here. A few minutes before the start of our first international webinar last July, ...

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 ...

This week, women gathered in downtown Chicago to advocate for justice for one of the darkest and least talked about legacies of World War II, the forced slavery of “comfort women.” “Their stories are ...

MANILA, Philippines — Sanya Lopez just can’t help but cry every time she talks about her experience of portraying a comfort woman in the GMA primetime series “Pulang Araw.” Sanya plays the role of ...

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 ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --Students at Harvard Law School denounced an article by a law professor who described the recruitment of "comfort women" as a consenting, contractual process, as anger grows in South ...