As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944, about a year before the ground battle against U.S. forces bega ...

At least 147 such stations are known to have existed in the southern island prefecture, where women -- mostly from Korea and Okinawa -- were used for sex by soldiers.

The news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25 was intended to mark Katsuto Momii's appointment to the top post at NHK, but he instead raised eyebrows by defending the wartime 'comfort women' system ...

Mina Watanabe is co-founder of the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM) in Tokyo, which helps to focus attention on Japan’s so-called comfort women and other victims of sexual abuse.

An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, though the injuries are not life-threatening ...

Across Japan, the number of prisoners aged 65 or older nearly quadrupled from 2003 to 2022 – and it’s changed the nature of incarceration. “Now we have to change their diapers, help them ...

TOKYO (AP) — An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan's southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, though the injuries are not life ...