【#1003】Japan Should Not Shoulder Unreasonable Responsibility
Nobuko Araki ー
South Korea earlier this month announced a proposal for a government-affiliated foundation to pay compensation on behalf of two Japanese companies ordered by the South Korean Supreme Court to make the payment to Koreans who claim to have been forcefully requisitioned to work in Japan during World War II.
【#1002】Clouds Cast Already over Implementation of 3 Security Documents
Fumio Ota ー
A joint statement on a meeting of the Japan-U.S. Security Consultative Committee in Washington on January 11 said that the Japanese and U.S. foreign and defense ministers at the so-called 2+2 meeting “committed to expand joint/shared use of U.S. and Japanese facilities and to increase bilateral exercises