Japan urges South Korea to take 'action' over wartime labor ruling

Order that Nippon Steel must compensate Koreans it forced to work adds to diplomatic tensions

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Japan and South Korea's foreign ministers meet in Tokyo in May.

AKANE OKUTSU, Nikkei Staff Writer

TOKYO -- Japan and South Korea are once again at loggerheads over the legacy of Tokyo's 35-year colonial rule of the peninsula (1910-1945).

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