Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has reportedly said Japan has given Korea all the compensation it needs to for the victims of its wartime atrocities and forced labor.<br />It's the Korean government, he said, that's responsible for reparations to individuals.<br />According to Japanese broadcaster NHK,... Kono told the crowd at a street rally on Saturday that Japan cannot accept last month's ruling by South Korea's highest court upholding a lower court ruling requiring steelmaker Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation to pay four South Korean victims around 87-thousand U.S. dollars each as compensation for unpaid work.<br />Kono said Tokyo already paid South Korea, back in 1965 as a form of economic support, around 500 million dollars,... which was more than South Korea's national budget at the time. <br />
