South Korea and Japan are both key regional security allies of the United States, but bilateral ties have long been strained over Tokyo’s brutal 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - South Korea said on Thursday it was considering compensating victims over Japan’s forced wartime labour without the direct participation of Japanese companies, as Seoul seeks closer ties with Tokyo to counter North Korean aggression.
Around 780,000 Koreans were conscripted into forced labour by Japan during the 35-year occupation, according to data from Seoul, not including women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese troops. Local reports have said the fund in discussion would use donations from South Korean companies - which benefitted from a reparations package from Japan - without the participation of Japanese companies.
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