The two East Asian countries are both liberal democracies and firm regional allies of America. Why can't they get along?
FOR THOSE who like to do their shopping in peace, any branch of Muji or Uniqlo in Seoul, South Korea’s capital, was a good choice this summer. Usually bustling with shoppers, these stores have been all but deserted for weeks as South Koreans, angry at Japan for imposing export restrictions on their country in July, have boycotted Japanese products and bought their clothes and home wares elsewhere instead. Meanwhile in Japan, there has been a revival of old tropes about “untrustworthy” Koreans.
The spat has been brewing since last October, when South Korea’s supreme court ruled that Japanese companies that used Koreans as forced labourers during the second world war were obliged to pay compensation to individual victims who were suing them. Japan, which has long maintained that all such claims had been settled by a treaty struck in 1965, demanded that the South Korean government rein in the court. South Korea declined, saying it could not interfere with the judiciary.
The two allies have mostly been able to keep these disagreements separate from matters of commerce and national security. That is partly because America, which is allied with both and relies on their co-operation to manage threats in the region, most notably from North Korea, has tended to step in when such disputes have threatened to get out of hand. But under President Donald Trump, America has become increasingly disengaged from its international commitments.
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