South Korean ambassador to Japan Nam Gwan-pyo speaking to the media after being summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on January 8, 2021, as Tokyo denounced a South Korean court ruling ordering the Japanese government to pay compensation to twelve World War II sex slaves. - AFP
SEOUL, Jan 9 (Reuters): A South Korean court for the first time on Friday ordered Japan to compensate 12 women who were forced to work in its wartime brothels, a ruling that drew a rebuke from Tokyo and threatened to rekindle a diplomatic feud between the two countries.
Reminders of Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula are contentious for both sides, with many surviving "comfort women" - a Japanese euphemism for the sex abuse victims - demanding Tokyo's formal apology and compensation.
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