Members of a conservative civic group chant slogans during an anti-Japan protest in Seoul, South Korea, August 13, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
SEOUL (Reuters) - Thousands of South Koreans protested outside Japan's embassy in Seoul on Wednesday and city officials unveiled a new memorial to wartime 'comfort women' at the centre of a row over the two countries' shared history.
The day of remembrance for women forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels comes amid renewed tensions over political and economic disputes dating back to Japan's colonial occupation of the Korea peninsula from 1910-1945.
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