It's a cue to refresh her memory. 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 ...

The term “comfort women” has long been used to describe these victim-survivors, but many reject the term and prefer what they believe is a more accurate description: sex slaves. One thing we ...

"Comfort women" is a linguistically warped categorization of the thousands of women and girls, many from poor communities, who were forced to serve as sex slaves. Manila-based attorney Romel ...

"I hope the mental pains of the elderly comfort women will be eased." It is estimated that up to 200,000 women were forced to be sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during WW2, many of them Korean.

Seoul — Wartime sex slaves from South Korea, euphemistically known as "comfort women," won their first legal victory against the Japanese government in a landmark ruling handed down Friday in Seoul.

Filipino elderly Narcisa Claveria (C), a former Filipino comfort woman, one of many women who were forced to serve for the Japanese Army as sexual slaves during World War II, joins a protest rally ...

A statue in San Francisco honoring the so-called "comfort women" sex slaves from World War II has enraged officials in Japan, who say they're ready to cut ties with their sister city over it.

Abe said earlier this month there was no proof Japan's government or army kidnapped women to work in military brothels as "comfort women", as the wartime sex slaves are known in Japan. He had also ...

A court in Seoul also recently fined a professor nearly $9,000 for writing a book in which she suggested some of the sex slaves voluntarily became comfort women.

Harvard Law School declined to comment. A United Nations report from 1996 concluded that the comfort women were sex slaves taken through “violence and outright coercion.” A statement from ...