Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Asia - Voice of America: WWII Anniversary Stokes Regional Tensions

Asia - Voice of America
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WWII Anniversary Stokes Regional Tensions
Aug 15th 2012, 10:25

SEOUL – Government officials in Tokyo and Seoul marking the anniversary of the end of war in the Pacific are aggravating lingering grievances stemming from their colonial past. A children's choir sang as attendees waved South Korean flags to mark the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the peninsula from decades of Japanese colonial rule. Old wounds At the ceremony, President Lee Myung-bak called on Japan to help heal old wounds. He specifically mentioned festering grievances about ...

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