SEOUL, South Korea -- When South Korean fans at a soccer game against Japan unfurled two massive banners honoring men considered national heroes for battling Japanese invaders, organizers took them down, Tokyo grumbled - and South Koreans cheered yet another sign of defiance against their former colonizer. "It was childish. Still, a part of me thought, well, it serves them right," Shin Jong-Hoon, a 23-year-old biomedical engineering student, said in Seoul, noting that Japanese fans at the game this summer had also been waving flags associated with Japan's wartime military. As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Asia on Monday for a visit to Japan, China and South Korea, the...
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