Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed regret over S. Koreans' move to seize the assets of a Japanese firm following South Korea's Supreme Court ruling that ordered to compensate the Korean vicitims of forced labor during World War Two.<br />On a talk show that aired Sunday on Japan-based NHK... Prime Minister Abe said he has ordered related ministries to look into the situation and come up with countermeasures... in light of international law.<br />He also claimed the issue was dealt with in a 1965 treaty between the two countries.<br />South Korea's highest court ruled in October that Japan's Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation has to pay each victim around 87-thousand U.S. dollars for unpaid work and that the 1965 agreement did not terminate the right of individuals to seek reparations. <br />
