Tokyo, March 6 (IANS): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday said that his government will uphold a key postwar apology, previously issued by the country following South Korea providing a solution to a protracted wartime labour row.
South Korea is making final tweaks to a plan that could finally resolve the contentious issue of compensating Korean laborers who worked for Japanese businesses during World War II, sources from both countries said.
An organization invited two former Japanese prime ministers to attend an important event for the Unification Church in South Korea, but both declined the offers.
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Nobuo Ishihara, a former deputy chief Cabinet secretary who served a record seven prime ministers from 1987 to 1995, has died, a government source said on Feb. 1. He was 96.