South Korea court orders Japan to compensate ‘comfort women’, reverses earlier ruling
Seoul, South KoreaReuters A South Korean appellate court on Thursday ordered Japan to compensate a group of 16 women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels, overturning a lower court ruling that dismissed the case and prompting a stern protest from Tokyo. The legacy of Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula […]
South Korea’s few surviving ‘comfort women’ face life’s end as political fight rages on
Seoul, South KoreaReuters Fighting disease, death and disillusionment, members of South Korea’s rapidly dwindling sisterhood of surviving “comfort women” say they are facing the twilight of their lives with diminished camaraderie and will to wage political battles. Only 14 of the 240 registered survivors of Japan’s wartime brothels are still alive in South Korea, nearly […]