S. Koreans, Chinese hold rally over wartime forced labor

S. Koreans, Chinese hold rally over wartime forced labor

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Survivors (front, sitting) of Japanese forced labor during the Second Sino-Japanese War listen to a speech during a rally in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province in northern China, on April 1, 2014, the day before filing a lawsuit against a Japanese company over wartime forced labor.

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