Japan Plans to Curb South Korea Exports Over Colonial-Era Claims
- Restrictions target display and chip manufacturing suppliers
- South Korea calls measures retaliation and vows response
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Japan moved to cut off materials vital to South Korea’s all-important tech industry, escalating a long-running dispute between the neighbors over events dating back generations.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government said Monday it would slap export restrictions on highly specialized products needed to make semiconductors and computer displays, and might also remove South Korea from a list of trusted buyers. The move comes after South Korean courts ruled that Japanese companies must compensate Koreans conscripted to work in factories and mines during the 1910-45 colonization of the peninsula.