Ahead of this year’s International Memorial Day for Comfort Women, Sixth Tone sat down with Su Zhiliang to learn more about the system behind the wartime atrocity — and the future of its research as ...

Fu Meiju (center) is one of the few surviving “comfort women”, a bland euphemism for brutal sexual slavery by Japanese troops during World War II, in South China’s Hainan province. Using a ...

Their own memories fading, former World War Two sex slaves seek justice in their twilight years.

一尊尊无言的少女铜像镌刻着战争对女性的蹂躏，折射出现代政治的漩涡，也提醒当今世人不要忘记这段历史。在第二次世界大战结束80周年之际，让我们一起走进慰安妇铜像背后的故事。

The two women are in yet another gathering of former World War Two sex slaves - the so-called "comfort women" who were forced into military brothels in South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, China and ...

The group, which is committed to raising awareness about sex trafficking, organized the event to recognize and honor the ...

The “comfort women” – the many thousands of women who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during the second world war – are a hugely emotive topic. A statue of two of them – one ...

With her death, the living comfort women victims fell to 49. The comfort women refers to Korean women coerced into sex slavery at Japanese military brothels during the World War II.

The two women are in yet another gathering of former World War Two sex slaves - the so-called "comfort women" who were forced into military brothels in South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, China and ...

To the Editor: Re “ Kim Bok-dong, 92, Wartime Sex Slave Who Campaigned for Justice, Dies ” (obituary, Jan. 30): The Japanese government recognizes that the issue of the comfort women in World ...