By RYUICHI KITANO/ Senior Staff Writer
March 29, 2021 at 16:46 JST
Lee Hak-rae, a Korean convicted of war crimes for his actions as a POW guard during World War II, calls for legislation to provide special benefits to non-Japanese Class B or C war criminals at a news conference in Tokyo in June 2020. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Lee Hak-rae, an ethnic Korean who long sought compensation from the Japanese government after being convicted of war crimes, died of traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage at a Tokyo hospital on March 28. He was 96. [Read More]
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