S. Koreans burn 'Norota effigy'

S. Koreans burn 'Norota effigy'

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean demonstrators burn an effigy of Japanese lawmaker Hosei Norota at a Seoul park Feb. 28 in protest over his controversial remarks. Norota told his supporters earlier this month that ''colonialism in Asia was rooted out thanks to the Greater East Asia War,'' the phrase employed by the Imperial Japanese Army in its bid to create a Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere during World War II.

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