There would not have been "modern Korea" if there had not been the colonial rule by Japanese in the past hundred years.

没有日本过去上百年的殖民**，就没有今天的所谓“现代韩国”。

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Mr. Abe in the past has questioned the largely accepted historical fact that the women, many from colonial Korea, were forced to serve as prostitutes by the Japanese military.

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During the Japanese colonial rule over Korea (1910-45), many Koreans were conscripted into the Japanese army and munitions factories in Japan, and a considerable number of them remained there after liberation.

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He has, for instance, praised Japan's colonial occupation of Korea from 1910-45 though the Aso mining company from which the family's fortunes derive used Korean slave labour during the second world war.

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