South Korea’s Supreme Court last year ordered two Japanese companies to compensate the wartime workers in a ruling that Tokyo said violated international law. Japan believes the issue of compensation was settled under a 1965 treaty.
The two countries are in dispute over a chain of Pacific islands and as a result have still not formally ended WWII. Moscow suggested a treaty without preconditions. But Tokyo later said it still wants the islands back first.
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