Decades of pain: People sitting around a statue of a comfort woman during an installation of empty chairs at a performance event commemorating the death of eight former sex slaves in Seoul in December 2017. — AFP
JAPAN’S Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to visit Seoul today, as the allies look to bury the historical hatchet and boost ties.
It will be the first official bilateral visit by a Japanese leader to South Korea in over a decade, but what exactly are the problems that have bedevilled relations between the two East Asian countries?
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