South Korea and Japan resumed director-general-level talks in Tokyo on Thursday to discuss the Japanese army's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II. Earlier in the day, Lee Sang-deok, director-general for the Northeast Asian affairs bureau of the foreign ministry, flew to Tokyo for a two-day visit to meet his Japanese counterpart, Junichi Ihara, in their second round of negotiations to discuss the issue of comfort women, a source of diplomatic tension between the two countries.