SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Japan's foreign minister reassured his South Korean counterpart Tokyo stands by a 1993 apology for sexual slavery in its Second World War military brothels, officials from both sides said, potentially defusing an escalating political row.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso's comments during fence-mending talks Saturday with Song Min-soon were seen as meeting t...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Japan's foreign minister reassured his South Korean counterpart Tokyo stands by a 1993 apology for sexual slavery in its Second World War military brothels, officials from both sides said, potentially defusing an escalating political row.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso's comments during fence-mending talks Saturday with Song Min-soon were seen as meeting th...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Japan's foreign minister reassured his South Korean counterpart Tokyo stands by a'93 apology for sexual slavery in its Second World War military brothels, officials from both sides said, potentially defusing an escalating political row.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso's comments during fence-mending talks Saturday with Song Min-soon were seen as meeting the...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Japan's foreign minister reassured his South Korean counterpart Tokyo stands by a 1993 apology for sexual slavery in its Second World War military brothels, officials from both sides said, potentially defusing an escalating political row.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso's comments during fence-mending talks Saturday with Song Min-soon were seen as meeting the mi...

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, April 1 (Yonhap) -- Two days of talks between South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soong and his Japanese counterpart came to an end here Sunday as the two apparently failed to narrow differences on issues that were threatening to strain ties between their countries.

Song and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso closed their two-day meeting on this southern resor...

"The Japanese military itself newly built this system, took the initiative to create this system, maintained it and expanded it."

IT was about 15 years ago, recalled Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a mild-mannered historian, when he grew fed up with the Japanese government's denials that the military had set up and run brothels throughout As...

It was the kind of stuff that you would expect a senior China Times editor to say. But it was Chang's conflict of interest questions that hit home. He finished his article with this: Does the foundation get money from the government? What are its methods? Do its members serve as government appointees in other capacities? And do they act as advisers for media outlets?

These were rhetori...

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TOKYO: A fund set up by Japan to help Asian women forced into prostitution by its military during World War II expires Saturday amid new denials from Tokyo that the government is t...

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SEOUL, South Korea: Japan's foreign minister arrived in South Korea for fence-mending talks Saturday, as the issue of sexual slavery in Japan's World War II military brot...

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, March 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon on Saturday urged Japan to correct its past wrongdoings "here and now" amid fresh tension between the neighboring states over the issue of Korean women forced into Japanese military brothels during World War II.

The call came as Song and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso began two days of talks on ...