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Japan-South Korea rift

Japan restricts tech exports to South Korea over wartime labor row

Move risks being seen as backtracking on free trade

Japan is expected to hamper the ability of South Korean companies to buy a plastic used in flexible OLED displays. (Photo courtesy of Samsung Display)
TAKASHI TSUJI, Nikkei staff writer | Japan

TOKYO -- Japan is preparing to impose tougher restrictions on South Korean companies' ability to buy semiconductor materials such as plastic used in flexible phone displays, apparently in reaction to Seoul's stance on compensation for wartime labor.

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