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Former Japanese PM pays respects to Korean victims of forced labor
Former Japanese PM pays respects to Korean victims of forced labor
All Headlines 13:15 October 12, 2019 Yonhap News
SEOUL/BUSAN, Oct. 12 (Yonhap) -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Saturday paid tribute to the Koreans engaged in forced labor during Tokyo's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
On the second day of his two-day visit to South Korea, Hatoyama visited the National Memorial Museum of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Occupation in South Korea's southern port city of Busan...
...Hatoyama also said that issues surrounding Korean victims' right to seek compensation are not settled -- regardless of the 1965 accord that normalized bilateral ties.
The Japanese government claims that all compensation was settled when the two countries normalized their diplomatic ties in 1965, although a South Korean court ruled that individual rights to seek compensation are still valid.
On the second day of his two-day visit to South Korea, Hatoyama visited the National Memorial Museum of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Occupation in South Korea's southern port city of Busan...
...Hatoyama also said that issues surrounding Korean victims' right to seek compensation are not settled -- regardless of the 1965 accord that normalized bilateral ties.
The Japanese government claims that all compensation was settled when the two countries normalized their diplomatic ties in 1965, although a South Korean court ruled that individual rights to seek compensation are still valid.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191012002400320?input=tw
Until 2001, the executive branch of the Japanese government had consistently taken the position that peace agreements following WWII, did not waive the rights of individual claimants to bring lawsuits to recover personal damages for unlawful actions taken against them during WWII.
