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.

As the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings approaches, the documentary urges reflection and reckoning with a past that ...

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.

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 ...