By RYUICHI KITANO/ Senior Staff Writer
March 29, 2021 at 16:46 JST
Lee Hak-rae, center, calls for an early resolution of the issue of non-Japanese convicted of Class B or C war crimes at a news conference in Tokyo in October 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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