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Koreans want answers to slave laborers' fates

Kang Joung Ho has been trying for 60 years to find out what happened to his father, who was brought to Japan as a forced laborer in 1943.

The only information he has found so far is that his father was forced to be a coxswain on a wooden ship that moved supplies for the Imperial Japanese Army in the South Pacific.

"I was once told by Japan's welfare ministry that it does not have any records on my father," Kang said. "I think Japan should disclose all documents" it has on the Korean slave laborers.

Kang is one of eight South Koreans visiting Japan whose relatives were brought here as slave laborers in the 1930s and 1940s. They are urging Tokyo to increase its efforts to collect the remains of their relatives and information on them.

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