SEOUL--More than 1,000 Korean royal archives and other centuries-old books Tokyo had promised to return to Seoul are all back home in South Korea for the first time in almost 100 years.
Japan returns Korean royal archives after a century
A container carrying ancient Korean royal archives arrives at a cargo section at Incheon International Airport from Japan on Dec. 6. (Yoshihiro Makino)
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