(Reuters) — South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Saturday (March 1) urged Japan to stop denying the past during an official ceremony to mark Independence Movement Day. This year commemorates the 95th year of the declaration of the nation’s independence from Japanese colonisation on March 1, 1919. Japan’s ties with South Korea are increasingly strained over a host of issues, including the territorial rows and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit late last year to the Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted war criminals are […]