South Korea considers Japan's handover of more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives as an "expression of repentance" over its brutal 1910-1945 colonial rule of the peninsula, Seoul's ambassador to Japan, Shin Kak Soo, said Tuesday.
By returning the seized archives, the Japanese government "has shown sincerity in making an expression of repentance over the past," Shin told Yonhap news agency ahead of the scheduled arrival of the archives in Seoul later Tuesday. (Japan Times)
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