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...The US is trying to capitalise on a recent improvement in Japan-South Korea ties after years of tension over Tokyo’s forced labour and sexual slavery practices during the second word war....
...In the country of my birth, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an estimated tens of thousands of women were raped during the war in the 1990s, many in military camps set up for that purpose....
...The war’s poisonous legacy is nowhere more evident than in South Korea, where the issue of Korean women pressed into sexual slavery during Japanese occupation remains a flashpoint, as does the way Japan’...
...sexual slavery, which later collapsed after it was disowned by Moon Jae-in, Yoon’s leftwing predecessor....
...Park’s story shines a light on the fact that, for decades, the only way for many North Korean women to escape the regime has been by selling themselves (or being sold, often tricked and informed only when...
...“We cannot win a war on the Korean peninsula without Japan,” said Chun, noting the importance of Japanese airfields and ports to US military support for Seoul....
...With courage and stoic determination, the 23-year-old launched a public campaign this summer, demanding truth and a formal apology from Japan’s military after she was sexually assaulted by drunken male officers...
...A strike by the workers is also scheduled for next Monday....
...His grandfather was deputy prime minister and his father the chief cabinet secretary who issued a landmark 1993 apology to wartime “comfort women”, South Korean women forced into sex slavery during Japan...
...A 2015 agreement to settle a dispute over women forced into sexual slavery during the war involved a voluntary payment from the Japanese government....
...Revisionists on the Japanese right claim the women were not coerced into sexual servitude by the Japanese military, but recruited as prostitutes by their fellow countrymen....
...Emerging designers in London are often supported by initiatives that combine mentorship with financial support, such as the British Fashion Council’s Newgen programme, the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund...
...for Japan’s efforts during the second world war....
...The revelations prompted the state-appointed National Council for Women to encourage the victim to file an official complaint and witnesses to come forward....
...Others were abducted as brides for the few foreign men in the country; local women, raised on a diet of xenophobic propaganda, were repelled by foreigners....
...Since the coup the UN Security Council has passed three statements, all backed by Russia or China — which are usually at odds with western members over human rights — that called for an end to violence and...
...Women were forced into sexual slavery and children used as servants or quasi-adopted....
...(FT) Is Covid-19 dragging women back to the 1950s? Decades of advances are under threat as research already shows women are disproportionately hurt by the pandemic’s economic fallout....
...Facebook geo-blocked the Royalist Marketplace, an online news, gossip and comment site curated by Japan-based dissident Pavin Chachavalpongpun....
...Marymond, a small design company in South Korea, makes fashion accessories emblazoned with flowers to represent the “comfort women” who were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers during the...
...Only then will North Koreans in China, including women and girls in sexual slavery, be able to be helped,” said Ms Yoon....
...Japan is watching out for whether Seoul decides to return $9m that Tokyo donated to the victims of wartime sexual slavery — a move that would infuriate Japan....
...Tens of thousands of Korean women were trafficked into sexual slavery by Japan during the second world war....
...The decision comes as Seoul considers whether to return $9m that Tokyo donated to the victims of wartime sexual slavery — a move that could portend another round of acrimony over the “comfort women” issue...
...Attention is likely to shift to whether Seoul decides to return $9m that Tokyo donated to the victims of wartime sexual slavery — a move that would infuriate Japan....
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