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Japan's legacy of forced labor haunts ties with neighbors

by AP Business Writer
| August 10, 2020 12:03 AM

TOKYO (AP) — For years, Yeom Chan-soon was haunted by the cracking sound of a leather belt eating into the flesh of a fellow Korean mine worker being punished for trying to escape from forced labor in Japan.

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