SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is likely to skip an international fleet review in South Korea next week, Japanese media on Friday, after Seoul asked Tokyo to reconsider flying its "Rising Sun" flag on a warship, the latest spat over the countries' colonial history.
Japan's relations with both South and North Korea have long been strained by lingering resentment over its colonisation of the peninsula, territorial rows and the issue of girls and women forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels.
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