Tatsuya Kato, former Seoul bureau chief for Japan's Sankei Shimbun, arrives at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in Seoul in this photo taken by Kyodo October 2, 2014. Mandatory credit. REUTERS/Kyodo
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea lifted a travel ban on a Japanese journalist on trial for a charge of defaming South Korean President Park Geun-hye, a prosecution official said on Tuesday, removing what has been an irritant in bilateral relations.
South Korean prosecutors in October indicted the former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, Tatsuya Kato, after concluding a news article he wrote about Park on Aug. 3 was based on "false information".
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