InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate Explainer: The high-tech trade dispute rooted in Japan’s wartime history By financialnews_rlv83x - July 8, 2019 0 220 Japan has tightened curbs on exports of high-tech materials used in smartphone displays and chips to South Korea, upping the ante in a decades-old dispute with Seoul over South Koreans forced to work for Japanese firms during World War Two.