TOKYO – Japan announced Friday that it would recall its ambassador to South Korea and suspend economic talks in response to the placing of a "comfort-woman" statue representing wartime sex slaves in ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A controversial statue symbolizing "comfort women" was withdrawn from a Japanese art exhibition on Saturday after organizers received security threats, amid a resurgence of tensions ...

Statues symbolizing the World War II sex slaves abused by Japanese soldiers have appeared this year on Korean city buses — including on a bus... 'Comfort Woman' Memorial Statues, A Thorn In Japan's ...

After a 2011 version of this statue was installed outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul, they began to pop up around the world. YunHo LEE - Flickr/Creative Commons It’s been decades since the world ...

In Berlin, a “Statue of Peace” has angered Japanese officials. It commemorates over 200,000 girls and women from 14 countries forced into sex work by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War.

Her message has revolved around Japan's resurgence as a superpower, both geopolitically and militarily. She supports ...

Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea. She was sent to an ...

On October 21, Japan elected its first female prime minister. Takaichi Sanae, a former economic security minister and a ...

A South Korean judge has ordered the Japanese government to pay damages to 12 victims of war-time sexual slavery, in a historic ruling over war atrocities that have strained the two countries’ ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover business and economy in South and North Korea. They call it a “landmark deal,” but will they ever be able to come to terms ...

Japan appears poised to select a new leader, and this will likely shatter the country’s longstanding glass ceiling: Sanae ...