TOKYO: Japan summoned South Korea's ambassador on Wednesday to protest a compensation payment by a Japanese company related to the thorny issue of wartime forced labor.

The countries have long been locked in a bitter dispute over Japan's use of forced labor during its brutal decades-long occupation of the Korean peninsula before and during World War II.

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