Jan 14, 2016 · South Korean press reports on the comfort women issue often denigrate the Asian Women’s Fund by asserting that only a "small number" of women came forward to accept the Fund’s assistance because most former comfort women rejected the Fund because of its "unofficial" status.

After the issue of Japan’s responsibility for the "comfort women" exploded in 1992, Tokyo took a series of measured steps to deal with the demands of NGOs in Japan, South Korea, and elsewhere to

Looking back over these events, the Asian Women’s Fund decided to set up a digital museum, “The Comfort Women Issue and the Asian Women’s Fund.” The first purpose was to have the understanding arrived at by the government of Japan and the Asian Women’s Fund on the Comfort Women question preserved permanently and become the basis for

The Statement by President of the Asian Women’s Fund at the Final Press Conference. Today, we announce that the Asian Women’s Fund completed its last project in …

The Asian Women’s Fund has also organized activities to ensure that the comfort women issue will serve as a lesson of history, and to raise awareness of the issue. The activities have been based on a determination that, through historical research

The Asian Women’s Fund (財団法人女性のためのアジア平和国民基金, zaidan hojin josei-no tame no Ajia heiwa kokumin kikin), also abbreviated to アジア女性基金 in Japanese, was a fund set up by the Japanese government in 1994 to distribute monetary compensation to comfort women in South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and Indonesia.

The Asia Foundation’s AccelerateGrowth program has a goal of supporting one million women entrepreneurs in Asia by 2022—with a focus on rural women and those who have migrated to urban areas. Our multi-country approach targets barriers that impede and constrain women entrepreneurs from starting and growing their businesses.

The Projects of the Asian Women’s Fund Having deeply felt moral responsibility to the former "comfort women", the Asian Women’s Fund (AWF) was established in July 1995, on the basis of the decision of the People and the Government of Japan.

The Asian Women‘s Fund (AWF) was dissolved in the end of March 2007. Its web page “Digital Museum Comfort Women Issues and the Asian Women’s Fund” is stored in the web archives of the National Diet Library. (1) The Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan.

Haruki Wada, Asian Women’s Fund Activists in South Korea and Taiwan claimed that the letter was a personal not an official one, and that the money available …