SOUTH KOREA: South Korean protesters hold an anti-Japan rally to mark the Liberation Day and protest Japanese politicians visiting a wartime shrine

Record ID: 214733

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: South Korean protesters hold an anti-Japan rally to mark the Liberation Day and protest Japanese politicians visiting a wartime shrine
  • Date: 15th August 2014
  • Summary: PROTESTER HOLDING BANNER READING (Korean): " WE PROTEST AGAINST JAPAN'S REARMAMENT THAT DESTROYS PEACE!" RALLY IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN PROTEST LEADER, CHEON HO-SEON, SAYING: "Japan's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine is increasing. Japan doesn't care about South Korea, China and even its own people. We have to work together to make sure this doesn't happe
  • Embargoed: 30th August 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Korea, Republic of
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAC9UKKVBR4MBJI2E7R5IHWS2XJ
  • Story Text: Thousands of South Koreans held a protest against Japan in Seoul on Friday (August 15), after Japanese cabinet ministers visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo earlier in the day.
    About 4,000 protesters gathered in Seoul holding up placards and chanting, "Protest Japan's rearmament that destroys peace."

    "Japan's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine is getting widened. Japan doesn't mind South Korea, China and even its own people. We have to work together to make sure this doesn't happen again from next year," anti-Japan protest leader Cheon Ho-seon said.
    August 15, the 69th anniversary of Korean Liberation Day, marks the and of Japanese colonial rule, which lasted from 1910 to 1945. It is also the day Japan commemorates the end of World War II.
    More than 100 Japanese ministers and their representatives paid their respects at the Yasukuni Shrine, where wartime leaders convicted by an Allied tribunal as war criminals are honored along with other war dead.
    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering through a representative but did not visit in person.
    Ties between the two countries have been frayed by the legacy of Japan's 1910-1945 colonisation of the Korean peninsula, including questions of compensation and an apology to women forced to serve in military brothels in World War Two.
    Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between the two countries.
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