Previously, the South Korean leader had only expressed a reluctance to intervene in legal procedures involving the country's 2018 Supreme Court ruling.
Japan urges South Korea to take action over comfort women ruling
Japan urged South Korea during a senior officials videoconference Friday to take action over a recent court ruling in Seoul that ordered the Japanese government to pay damages to former comfort women, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said.
Japan is angered by the Seoul Central District Court ruling over the Korean women who worked at Japanese military brothels, calling it a violation of sovereign immunity under international law that allows a state to be shielded against the jurisdiction of foreign courts.
Takehiro Funakoshi, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan s Foreign Ministry, requested his South Korean counterpart Kim Jung Han ensure that the South Korean government will take appropriate action to correct the violation of international law, the ministry said.
export control policy talks in tokyo in the 3rd week of december. to challenge it all. the trade rich started last year over compensation for wartime labor south korean courts order japanese firms to pay compensation to koreans wartime laborers japan condemned the rulings arguing that the dispute had been settled in 1965 when diplomatic ties were normalized between the 2 countries it then went on to tighten controls on south korean exports targeting materials used in memory chips and display screens that are vital for companies like samsung. the 2 countries then removed each other from their list of preferred trading partners making export in goods more difficult but as both sides hurt financially they appear ready to find a compromise. india s economy is losing steam with new data showing 2nd