Taro Aso and Korea

Lovely, just lovely, to have another reason (as if more is needed), for Koreans to be reminded about their subjugated past.

Newly appointed Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso's (pictured) family apparently owned a coal mine during World War II where over 10,000 Koreans were forced into hard labor.

Even though Aso was only a child during the war when his family's mining company used Korean forced laborers rounded up by the Japanese army, wire reports suggested that "despite the circumstances and the passage of time, many Koreans are galled by Aso's past."

Ah, so.