South Korea's foreign minister has intervened over a provincial proposal to apply stickers to some Japanese-made items in schools as 'made by a ...
SEOUL: South Korea's foreign minister has intervened over a provincial proposal to apply stickers to some Japanese-made items in schools as"made by a Japanese firm responsible for war crimes".
They have put together a list of 284 companies, including household names like Toshiba, Mitsubishi and Hitachi. Japan maintains that all historical compensation issues between the two nations were settled under the 1965 treaty that re-established diplomatic relations, which included a reparations package of about $800 million in grants and cheap loans.
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