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The ruling by the Supreme Court upholds lower court decisions requiring Japanese companies to compensate workers or their families for forced labour during Japan’s colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula. This weakens the Japan-South Korea agreement of March 2023 setting up a voluntary compensation fund. A painful shared past still weighs heavily on the rapprochement between the two countries, with major security implications over North Korea.  

What a difference an administration makes. Japan has transformed from a “perpetrator” of “crimes against humanity” under the former Moon Jae-in administration into a “partner that shares universal values with us” under the current Yoon Seok Yul administration, at least according to March 1 Independence Movement Day speeches. The contrast is sharp and shows quite clearly the difficulty Japan faces in relations with South Korea.

Japan keeps close eye on policies of incoming South Korean president Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday expressed his eagerness to improve the stalled relationship between Japan and South Korea after main opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol won the South Korean presidential election.

Japan PM Kishida eager to improve bilateral ties as new South Korean president elected Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

Advertisement Relations between South Korea and Japan have been at a nadir since 2018, when the South Korean Supreme Court ruled in two cases that workers used as forced labor by Japan during World War II were entitled to financial compensation from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Nippon Steel. But a recent decision by the Seoul Central District Court on the issue of forced labor may add more confusion than clarity to an issue that has strained relations between the two countries. The case...

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Why the court got it wrong on international law By February 14, 2021 Advertisement A South Korean court made headlines in early January, when it ruled in a claim filed by former “comfort women” that Japan did not have state immunity in the case, and awarded damages to the plaintiffs. The comfort women worked in privately owned brothels servicing the Japanese military during World War II. Japan, invoking state immunity under international law, elected not to appeal the decision, and it was ...