Japan, South Korea partnership funds to go to chips, energy

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Masakazu Tokura, right, chairman of Keidanren, and Kim Byung-joon, left, acting chairman of the Korean National Federation of Economic Organizations (ZENKEIREN), shake hands after their press conference on "Japan-Korea Partnership Fund for the Future" Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO – Top business leaders from Japan and South Korea announced Wednesday they will use a fund meant to underscore the two countries' burgeoning ties to strengthen their cooperation in energy, industry and other sectors. Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, and its South Korean counterpart, the Federation of Korean Industry, announced a fund of 200 million...