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South Korea said it will continue its efforts to expose the cruel history of Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women to the international community, following Japan's complaint of South Korea's plan to list documents about Korean victims as United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) documentary heritage.
SouthKoreasaiditwillcontinueitseffortstoexposethecruelhistoryofJapan'swartimesexualenslavementofKoreanwomentotheinternationalcommunity,followingJapan'scomplaint
Aging Filipino "comfort women" staged a protest on Thursday in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila ahead of the visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the country.
South Korean gender equality minister regretted that the Seoul-Tokyo agreement on Japan's wartime sex slaves has gone undervalued among the local public, particularly in terms of the Japanese government's donation of a huge fund for the women.
Indonesia held an art creations exhibition to showcase the sufferings of Ianfu or "comfort women" during Japan colonization in Indonesia from 1941 to 1945.
The records of Japan's wartime exploitation of forced sex slaves, known as "comfort women," should be preserved as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World to spur much-needed vigilance, a South Korean scholar and activist has said.
Japanese government's poor efforts to resolve "comfort women" issue will become a "boomerang" to its political position in the Asia Pacific region, an Indonesian expert told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Hilaria Bustamante was only 16 years old when, one day more than 70 years ago, three Japanese soldiers abducted her, hauled her onto a military truck and brought her to a garrison where she was reportedly imprisoned and repeatedly raped for a year.
Some legislators from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Wednesday insisted that Japan should not allow a South Korean foundation helping the 46 surviving "comfort women" who were brutalized in military brothels by the Japanese army during the war to receive funds they were promised.
Taipei, March 8 (CNA) The plaque of the first museum dedicated to Taiwanese "comfort women," who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, was unveiled Tuesday, International Women's Day.
A deal struck between Japan and South Korea purporting to finally end a long-standing rift between the two countries over the "comfort women" issue was lambasted Tuesday by two former Korean women who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels.
Activists fighting for rights of"comfort women"rallied Wednesday around Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence demanding that the government properly handle the historical issue, rather than using money to made a deal over the country's wartime wrongdoing.
As Japan and South Korea agreed to settle the long-standing "comfort women" issue between the two sides, more sincerity and actions are needed from Tokyo to better resolve the sensitive historical matter.
In August 1910, the Empire of Japan formally annexed what had once been the sovereign nation of Korea. It is only now, over a century later, that Japan and Korea have formally reconciled one of the darkest legacies of that era: the 1930s and '40s recruitment of Korean women and girls as sex slaves known as "comfort women."
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