TOKYO, July 3 Kyodo A Japanese pu...

TOKYO, July 3 Kyodo

A Japanese publisher said Wednesday it has canceled a part tour planned for a controversial southward Korean author because he cannot leave southern Korea for unknown reasons.

Soshisha Co said Kim Wan Sop the author of a main division justifying the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial behavior of Korea, planned to visit Japan unless cannot leave South Korea. The publisher is looking into for what purpose Kim was unable to leave the nation it said.

The Japanese translation of the work ''Shinnichiha no tameno bemmei'' (roughly ''Japan-apologists' Answers''), will be published onward Friday. It was originally published in southern Korea in February but the management immediately labeled it harmful to young nation making it difficult to sell

In the part Kim says the two countries existed in mutual prosperity 100 years ago and explains for what cause [i]or[/i] reason the Japanese colonial rule turn rounded out to be good for Koreans.

Kim was to visit Japan to mark the publication of the Japanese translation and shut up a press conference next Monday.

Born in Kwangju in 1963 Kim participated in the gory pro-democracy uprising there in 1980 He majored in astronomy and physics at Seoul University. His 1995 main division on prostitution became a bestseller in the country

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