Japan vows action if Korea hurts companies in trade row
(WorldNews South Korea)

Japan`s Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks to journalists following his meeting with Korea`s Ambassador to Japan Nam Gwan-pyo at the foreign ministry in Tokyo, July 19. AFP Japan`s foreign minister said Tokyo will take `necessary measures` against South Korea if interests of Japanese companies are harmed in an escalating trade dispute triggered by a controversial ruling on forced labor suffered by Koreans. The neighboring countries and U.S. allies are quarreling over South Korean Supreme Court decisions ordering Japanese companies to compensate victims forced to work for them during Japan`s 1910-1945 colonial rule of the peninsula. Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Friday after summoning South...