In Tokyo (Japan)
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has just met Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
A few days earlier, he had announced a project to compensate his nationals who were victims of forced labor in Japan during the war, in order to break the "vicious circle"
of
disputes between the two Asian countries and warm up their relations with South Korea. North.
• What are the sticking points between Japan and South Korea?
Colonized by Japan from 1910 to 1945, South Korea criticizes the latter for not showing enough contrition, even for giving in to collective amnesia about the ravages of its occupation.
Former
"comfort women"
and ex-Korean forced laborers are demanding, some in court, compensation and public apologies from Japan for the treatment they have suffered.
Japan, for its part, believes that any claim was explicitly extinguished at the end of a bilateral agreement signed by Tokyo and Seoul in 1965, in exchange for financial compensation.
He objects...
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