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“First fight is important” Export control to Korea, calculation of official residence

2019-10-18T04:32:25.723Z


Japan-Korea relations are becoming a bog. The Japanese government tightened export restrictions to South Korea in July, after a ruling in the Korean original collection lawsuit. The situation has become even more complicated as Korea rebounded. There is a controversy about this countermeasure in the government ...


Japan-Korea relations are becoming a bog. The Japanese government tightened export restrictions to South Korea in July, after a ruling in the Korean original collection lawsuit. The situation has become even more complicated as Korea rebounded. There was also a controversy within the government regarding such countermeasures. Still, I verified why I decided to take it.

In the afternoon of June 20th, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence office held a talk on South Korea. Mr. Kazuyuki Furuya, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Mr. Takeo Akiba, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Kenji Kanasugi, Director of the Asia-Pacific Bureau, and Mr. Takashi Shimada, Secretary of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, gathered.

In October of last year, the Korean Grand Court ordered the Japanese company to compensate the former workers. The Japanese government cannot accept compensation from the standpoint that the compensation issue is completely and finally resolved in the 1965 Japan-Korea Claims Agreement. As the plaintiffs proceeded with the procedures to sell assets of Japanese companies and the situation became more serious, the Japanese government repeatedly asked the Korean government to take measures to prevent damage to Japanese companies. Zero answers continued.

What is the way to clearly convey the attitude to the Korean side without significantly affecting Japanese companies? Government officials say that such a study was underway in the government at the time.

June 20, Prime Minister and government officials ...

Source: asahi

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