During World War II, Japan occupied South Korea, enslaving Koreans to work in their factories and sexually service their soldiers. Japan has apologized and paid reparations to Koreans. But this ...

Japan’s position on Dokdo, Korea’s easternmost islets in the East Sea that Japan claims as its own, is “inexcusably ...

Japan and South Korea have agreed on a way to resolve the contentious issue of compensating Korean laborers who toiled for Japanese businesses during World War II. The South Korean government on ...

In South Korea, their numbers have now dwindled to nine. The last known survivor in Taiwan died in May. Japan's refusal to confront its wartime past and pay reparations has been a source of ...

It repeated past explanations that labor mobilization measures during World War II covered all ... laborers from the Korean Peninsula. Seoul again raised the issue when Japan in February nominated ...

commemorating the normalization of diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan in 1965, following World War II. The Seoul ...

During the final months of World War II, U.S. Navy battleships ... alongside Army bombers to Japan’s devastation. Post-war, most battleships were retired, but the Korean War prompted the ...

Shufeldt, envisioning a future where the trading fortunes of the U.S. would be found across the Pacific rather than in the Atlantic world of old, predicted that Korea ... for World War II in ...