SEOUL/TOKYO -- Relations between Japan and South Korea have plumbed new lows after a South Korean court ordered Tokyo to pay reparations to former wartime "comfort women," further eroding trust between the two countries leading into U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.
Japan-South Korea rift
Comfort women ruling frays South Korea-Japan ties ahead of Biden era
US president-elect's 'united front of allies' faces challenge from the get-go
