Daily Memo: Frictions Return Between Japan and South Korea

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Tokyo and Seoul are at it again. The endless dispute between Seoul and Tokyo over wartime atrocities is flaring up again. On Friday, a South Korean court ordered Japan to pay out new reparations to a dozen former so-called comfort women, or victims of Japanese wartime sexual slavery. This comes amid an ongoing legal process […]

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