{"id":661577,"date":"2019-07-22T07:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T07:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_974956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/07\/Japan-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-974956 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"><noscript><img class=\"size-full wp-image-974956 lazyl"},"modified":"2019-07-22T07:11:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T07:11:17","slug":"south-korean-man-kills-himself-as-dispute-with-japan-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/22\/south-korean-man-kills-himself-as-dispute-with-japan-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean man kills himself as dispute with Japan escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_974956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/Japan-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-974956 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-974956 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/Japan-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This handout photo taken on July 19, 2019 and provided by the Jongro Fire Station shows firefighters at the scene where a man set a fire inside his vehicle in front of a building housing the Japanese embassy in Seoul. \u2013 A South Korean man died on July 19, after setting himself on fire in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, police said, amid ongoing trade and diplomatic disputes with Tokyo. (Photo by Handout \/ Jongro Fire Station \/ AFP) \/&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>An elderly South Korean man died on Friday after setting himself on fire outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul as a bitter diplomatic dispute over wartime forced labour compensation took a fatal turn.<\/p>\n<p>The row has seen Tokyo restrict exports of chemicals vital to Seoul\u2019s world-leading chip and smartphone industry in an escalation of a decades-long dispute over Japanese forced labour during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The man in his 70s started a fire inside his vehicle parked in front of the embassy building and later died after being treated in hospital, authorities said, adding around 20 disposable gas canisters were also found in the car.<\/p>\n<p>He had spoken to an acquaintance on the phone while driving to the Japanese embassy from his home on Friday morning and told the person that he was \u201csetting fire\u201d to himself because of \u201chis hostility against Japan\u201d, a police officer at Seoul\u2019s Jongno Police Station told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis family members have also told us that his father-in-law was one of the victims of Japan\u2019s wartime slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suicide came as Japan\u2019s foreign minister summoned the South Korean ambassador in Tokyo over the dispute which analysts say could batter the global tech market.<\/p>\n<p>Taro Kono urged Seoul to \u201cimmediately take corrective measures\u201d after South Korea\u2019s high court ordered Japanese firms that used forced labour to compensate victims.<\/p>\n<p>Japan says the issue was resolved under an agreement signed after relations with South Korea were normalised, which included a package of loans.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo also warned it would take unspecified \u201cnecessary measures\u201d over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>To Kono\u2019s remarks, Seoul\u2019s foreign ministry insisted Tokyo should \u201cmake efforts to heal the pain and wounds\u201d of the Korean victims for the dispute to be \u201ctruly resolved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue House said Japan\u2019s claims that South Korea is violating international law are \u201csimply wrong\u201d and urged Tokyo to \u201cwithdraw unjustified export restriction measures and refrain from comments and measures that could further exacerbate the situation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong> \u2018Extremely rude\u2019 <\/strong><br \/>\nTokyo had asked South Korea to hold an arbitration meeting by Thursday on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Kono summoned the South Korean Ambassador to Japan saying it was \u201cdeeply regrettable\u201d that the deadline had passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly demand the South Korean government to immediately take corrective measures,\u201d Kono said in a visibly tense meeting with the envoy.<\/p>\n<p>Kono also slammed Seoul as \u201cextremely rude\u201d for continuing to suggest a joint compensation fund for forced labour victims be set up voluntarily by Japanese and South Korean firms.<\/p>\n<p>Early this month, Japan announced restrictions on the export of several chemicals to South Korea that are key to the chip and smartphone industries.<\/p>\n<p>The move triggered anger in Seoul but also raised international concern about the effect on the global tech supply chain and the possibility of price hikes for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo says the move was made necessary by a \u201closs of trust\u201d in relations with Seoul but also accuses South Korea of improperly handling exports of sensitive materials from Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul has threatened to take the issue to the World Trade Organization and also urged Washington to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the American allies have long been strained over issues related to Tokyo\u2019s brutal 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>But the recent court rulings and Japan\u2019s export restrictions have seen relations sink to their lowest point in years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script><br 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