https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/opinion/south-korea-japan.html
The roots of the animosity stretch to Japan’s colonization of Korea between 1910 and 1945, and more specifically the brutal exploitation of Koreans as sex slaves and forced laborers during World War II.
Passions have flared regularly but have usually been tamped down through the alliance of the two democracies with the United States against threats posed by North Korea and China, and by the extensive trade between South Korea and Japan.
