All posts tagged "comfort women"

  • Former comfort woman Kim Bok-dong, 89, left, staged a demonstration Wednesday outside the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., requesting an apology.
    Former comfort woman stages demonstration outside DC Japanese embassy

    By The Korea Times Washington, D.C. staff Kim Bok-dong, 89, a former Korean comfort woman, staged a demonstration outside the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., Wednesday for the first time. Kim was joined by representatives from several...

    • Posted July 2, 2015
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  • Korean American Forum of California head Kim Hyun-jung spoke to students of the Korean American Coalition about the ongoing issue with the comfort women's requests of apology from Japan Tuesday. (The Korea Times)
    Comfort women demonstrations to be held in US cities through September

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff The Korean American Forum of California announced it would hold a demonstration requesting an apology for comfort women outside the Japanese Consulate General in Los Angeles Wednesday, followed by a...

    • Posted June 24, 2015
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  • Yoo Jae-suk, South Korea's top TV host, visited the House of Sharing last year. (Yonhap)
    Yoo Jae-suk donates to comfort women home House of Sharing

    Top South Korean television personality Yoo Jae-suk donated 40 million won, or about $36,000 to Kyeonggi Province’s comfort women home House of Sharing this month, Yonhap reported. The house, located in Kyeonggi Province, is home to a...

    • Posted June 22, 2015
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  • Glendale's comfort woman statue (Yonhap)
    Former Korean ‘comfort woman’ prepares lawsuit against Japan in US court

    A South Korean comfort woman is preparing to file a lawsuit against the Japanese government, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and about 10 Japanese corporations, including Mitsubishi and Sankei Shimbun, for a sum of $20 million in the...

    • Posted June 19, 2015
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  • Glendale's comfort woman statue (Yonhap)
    Japan fails to attend court hearing on sex slaves

    SEOUL, June 15 (Yonhap) — A representative from Japan on Monday failed to attend the first conciliation hearing in Seoul on the country’s enslavement of Korean women for sex during World War II. Twelve Korean former sex...

    • Posted June 15, 2015
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  • People watch a live television program airing South Korean President Park Geun-hye's New Year's press conference at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, Monday, an. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Park says considerable progress made with Japan on sex slaves

    SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye has said “considerable progress” has been made with Japan on the issue of former South Korean sex slaves for Japan’s World War II soldiers, according to an interview posted...

    • Posted June 12, 2015
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  • University of Tokyo's honorary professor Haruki Wada (front row, second from left) and other Japanese scholars urge Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize. (Yonhap)
    281 Japanese scholars urge Abe to offer apology for history

    TOKYO, June 8 (Yonhap) — Hundreds of Japanese pundits urged their Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Monday to offer his own apology for Japan’s wartime crimes and atrocities. The move comes a little over a month after Abe...

    • Posted June 8, 2015
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