Japan Inc backs PM Abe's tough trade stance on SouthKorea amid row: Poll
TOKYO - Japanese companies broadly support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's tough trade stance against South Korea, a Reuters poll found.
The acrimonious trade dispute between Japan and South Korea, two US allies, grew out of a row over wartime forced labour. In the survey, companies were split on whether the trade curbs will affect the Japanese economy. Some companies said they won't be affected as they don't directly engage in business with South Korea.
Seoul sees the export curbs as retaliation over a dispute about wartime forced labour, while Tokyo cited unspecified security reasons. FORCED LABOUR DISPUTE A fresh dispute over wartime forced labour was triggered last year when a South Korean court ordered Japanese firms to compensate some of their former labourers. The dispute brought bilateral ties to their lowest point in decades.
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