Japan Update July 10, 2019

	South Korea and Japan  spar over export controls  at WTO TOKYO/SEOUL -- South Korea   urged Japan to lift new restrictions on exports of semiconductor materials at the World Trade Organization on Tuesday, even as the Japanese side denied imposing a trade embargo. Tokyo's move "will disrupt the global value chain" and harm South Korean companies, argued a Seoul envoy, whose Japanese counterpart replied that the measures are "based on security concerns." Japan placed export curbs on  South Korea-bound chipmaking materials last week after Seoul  failed to intervene in  Supreme Court rulings ordering Japanese  companies to pay those forced  to work for them  during World War II.
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