Kim Jung-ju, 87, wartime forced laborer at Nachi-Fujikoshi`s aircraft part factory in 1945, wipes away tears during an interview with The Korea Times at her home in Seoul, Nov. 21. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk By Lee Suh-yoon They told her she was going to a boarding school in Japan. `Ms. Ogaki, my Japanese homeroom teacher, told me I could meet my sister in Japan,` Kim Jung-ju, 87, said in an interview at her home in Seoul last week. `There, I could also keep studying, enter middle school and stay in the same dormitory as my sister.` In the final years of Japan`s occupation of Korea - which started in 1910 and ended with Japan`s surrender at the end of World War II in 1945 - hundreds...
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