[Japan's relations with both North and South Korea remain bedevilled by unresolved issues from the turbulent twentieth century, as illustrated by two cases concerning the remains of victims of a policy of abduction and exploitation across national borders. In the case of North Korea, negotiations over normalization remain stalled over the issue of the remains returned by North Korea in 2004 that supposedly belonged to Yokota Megumi, abducted to North Korea in 1977 (See Disputed Bones). In the case of South Korea, under heavy pressure from Seoul Japan has belatedly moved to settle the cases of some of the hundreds of thousands abducted from the Korean peninsula in the 1930s and 1940s as forced labor, many of who died, their remains being simply deposited in Japanese temples. Other issues still only slowly being attended to from the twentieth century that are addressed in the two articles from Yomiuri that follow include Korean victims of the atomic bomb devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a significant historical monument plundered by Japan from Korea and now about to be returned (to North Korea). Japan Focus]