July 19, 2019

Foreign Minister Taro Kono summoned a top South Korean diplomat on July 19 to express his frustration after Seoul ignored a deadline to help establish an arbitration panel to deal with the compensation issue for wartime workers.

"What the South Korean government is doing now can be considered an attempt to turn upside down the world order created after the end of World War II," Kono told South Korean Ambassador Nam Gwan-pyo at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo.

Tokyo had set July 18 as the deadline for selecting third-party nations to sit on an arbitration panel to look into the recent rulings by the South Korean Supreme Court ordering a number of Japanese companies to pay compensation to former workers and bereaved family members.

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