Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed regret over S. Koreans' move to seize the assets of a Japanese firm following South Korea's Supreme Court ruling that ordered to compensate the Korean vicitims of forced labor during World War Two.
On a talk show that aired Sunday on Japan-based NHK... Prime Minister Abe said he has ordered related ministries to look into the situation and come up with countermeasures... in light of international law.
He also claimed the issue was dealt with in a 1965 treaty between the two countries.
South Korea's highest court ruled in October that Japan's Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation has to pay each victim around 87-thousand U.S. dollars for unpaid work and that the 1965 agreement did not terminate the right of individuals to seek reparations.
