Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the government plans to soon ask South Korea for talks based on a 1965 bilateral deal to discuss the recent court-ordered seizure of assets of a Japanese firm.
Suga made the comment on Wednesday after a South Korean district court approved the seizure of assets held in the country by Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal.
In October, South Korea's top court ordered the Japanese firm to pay compensation to a group of South Koreans for wartime labor.
Japan says any right to claims was settled completely and finally when diplomatic relations were normalized in 1965.
NHK
