Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue commemorating so-called comfort women during World War II is displayed in a residential area of Berlin in October 2020.

The statue, which commemorates the “comfort women” of World War II, has embroiled the local government in a minor diplomatic controversy. The Friedensstatue, or Statue of Peace in Berlin, Germany, ...

Correction appended, Jan. 30, 03:30 EST. It was the mayor of Osaka who said that comfort women served a “necessary” role, not the mayor of Hiroshima. The article has been amended to reflect this. Did ...

Rick Halperin, SMU Human Rights Program director and co-founder of Human Rights Dallas, examines an exhibit before moderating a panel on comfort women at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ...

These "comfort women" were completely deprived of all personal freedom, forced to serve dozens of soldiers every day. They were forbidden to refuse, cry or fall ill. Any sign of "disobedience" ...