Japan rejects South Korea deal over wartime forced labour

Relations between the two US allies have been increasingly strained by a series of rulings from South Korean courts ordering Japanese firms that used wartime forced labour to compensate victims. Japan on Thursday flatly rejected as "unacceptable" a South Korean proposal to set up a joint fund for compensation. Japan colonised the Korean peninsula between 1910-45.

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