5 articles
Government
Victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor denounce Seoul’s compensation deal
Two elderly World War II forced labor victims took to the streets of Seoul in wheelchairs to protest the country’s compensation deal with Ja...
Michelle De Pacina
S. Korean victims of Japan forced labor continue to condemn Seoul’s compensation plan
A number of wartime forced labor victims continue to condemn South Korean officials’ plan to provide compensation through a domestic fund ra...
Ana Yoo
S. Korea considers plan to pay reparations to WWII forced labor victims instead of Japan
Despite initial demands for Japanese reparations, South Korea has proposed a plan to compensate Koreans who were victims of forced labo...
Iris Jung
Feature
More than 70 Asian American groups urge Biden to create Black reparations commission
A force of 76 Japanese American and Asian American organizations has demanded President Joe Biden create a reparations commission for Afric...
Carl Samson
History
Supreme Court rules Korean ‘comfort women’ in WWII US camptown sex trade entitled to reparations
South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that Korean “comfort women” who worked in brothels for U.S. troops in the 1940s are entitled to repar...
Ryan General
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