South Korean Court Tells Japan to Compensate over a Dozen Women for Forced Wartime Sexual Slavery

A South Korean court's ruling that ordered Japan to compensate 16 women over forced wartime sexual slavery has been "finalised" as Tokyo did not appeal, Seoul's foreign ministry said Saturday. Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women — mostly from Korea, but also other parts of Asia including China — were forced to become sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II. The issue, part of the countries' historical disputes over Japan's colonial rule over the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, has long plagued bilateral ties between the two US allies. The November 23 ruling overturned a lower…