Japan summons South Korea ambassador over wartime labor payment

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 22, 2024 11:45 am

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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