Both sides have ramped up rhetoric in recent weeks.
The Japanese and South Korean governments have started to plan for talks to be held as early as this week among related officials over Tokyo’s tightening export controls against Seoul on materials to produce semiconductors, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
According to sources, the Japanese side intends to inform South Korea of its stance that the curb is not an embargo, but a review of trade controls. The South Korean side has intensified its attitude toward implementing countermeasures, including filing the issue with the World Trade Organization. There is no end in sight to the strife.
The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry on Thursday tightened export controls against South Korea on three items, including hydrogen fluoride, which is used in the semiconductor industry. Under the measure, exporters are requ
By The Japan News
July 10, 2019
