Comments on: August 15th 2008: Prime Minister Fukuda not expected to visit Yasukuni

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:51:36 +0000

You clearly have no idea about what you are talking about. You are clouding facts with emotionalist rants.

By: ponta

ponta — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:22:08 +0000

You want to make the other accountable for what they did but as for your own actions you just pretend that nothing happened. It’s always the same move.

I guess　you are imagining things. I am just asking to learn from Korea.

As for the Vietnamese, Korea is taking a sincere approach to the matter and trying to settle the problem.

I am asking how Koreans commemorate the Vietnamese ” that died victims of their actions.” to borrow your words. I thought probably that is the way you want the Japanese to commemorate the Koreans that died victims of their actions.

If we were like Japan we would just deny the truth and keep blaming the Vietnamese for their “fate”

Again I am afraid you are imagining things. That makes me more curious about ho many times you think you have communicated with a spaceman from another planet.

By: Dr.Yu

Dr.Yu — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:06:33 +0000

It’s funny that you are asking this question.
You want to make the other accountable for what they did but as for your own actions you just pretend that nothing happened. It’s always the same move.
As for the Vietnamese, Korea is taking a sincere approach to the matter and trying to settle the problem. If we were like Japan we would just deny the truth and keep blaming the Vietnamese for their “fate”, and obviously lie, lie, lie and lie.
Do you remember “Hokoku Shrine”. That’s the way Japan celebrate the memory of those who they killed.
Just to refresh your memory, or teach you if your school book says nothing about it:

http://www.academy-kansai.com/english/program/neacyp/morningprayer.htm

By: Dr.Yu

Dr.Yu — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:40:37 +0000

Oh sure, just like Japan consented the A bombs in Japan, right?
Your comment is so ridiculous that don’t deserve answer. You must be one of those radical Japanese nationalist that glorify the atrocities committed during the war.
Japanese pride doesn’t need to relay on those shameful actions to stand before the world. Grow up. It’s because of “patriots” like you that Japan still can’t settle its problems with its neighbors.

By: ponta

ponta — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:02:52 +0000

What are you talking about? Vietnam was never a colony of Korea. At what planet do you live?

I know. I am asking how Korea expresses the remorse for the victims your people massacred, not to forget the Vietnamese ” that died victims of their actions.” to borrow your words.
BTW How many times do you think you have communicated with a spaceman from another planet?—I am just curious.

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:35:16 +0000

“Korea was colony of Japan but it was not consented, so we were technically at war.”

It did consent. Sure, it might have been a puppet government installed to be pro-Japanese, but it did consent. Unless by “Korea” you refer to some vague general masses, who didn’t have any say in anything anyway. And unless the government of Korea declared war on Japan Korea was not “technically” at war with Japan.

By: Dr.Yu

Dr.Yu — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:06:32 +0000

“Japan and Korea had no war.”

Your are right. Korea was colony of Japan but it was not consented, so we were technically at war.

“I guess I should study how other countries commemorate the victim of the colonization. BTW how do you commemorate the Vietnamese victim of Vietnam War in Korea?”

What are you talking about? Vietnam was never a colony of Korea. At what planet do you live?

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By: ponta

ponta — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:31:53 +0000

I guess I should study how other countries commemorate the victim of the colonization. BTW how do you commemorate the Vietnamese victim of Vietnam War in Korea?

By: ponta

ponta — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:59:02 +0000

I agree that it may be much better for the Japanese to set up the memorial or something to symbolize the remorse for the victim of the annexation.
But the war shrine is for the war dead; Japan and Korea had no war.

By: ponta

ponta — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:51:39 +0000

People don’t visit the war shrine and the war cemetery to legitimate the war. Do Korean visit national cemetery to say “hey you guys are great, you killed great number of north Koreans, and that was legitimate”? I don’t think so.
People visit the war shrine to pray for the war dead, to fulfil the promise to meet each other again at the shrine.

By: Dr.Yu

Dr.Yu — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:41:25 +0000

As a Korean it really bothers me when the Japanese talk about how Koreans died fighting as “voluntaries” for Japan, but they conveniently forget the rest of the Koreans that died victims of their actions.
These people are already dead. Respect them. Don’t use them for propaganda purpose.

By: Dr.Yu

Dr.Yu — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:33:01 +0000

I long for the day Japanese will stop using Koreans as an excuse to legitimate their actions and show sing of maturity by assuming what they did.

Please don’t misunderstand me, I know that there were Koreans that fought in the Japanese imperial army (whether voluntarily or forced) but this is just a minor part of the whole thing, and it doesn’t legitimate or justify what Japan did during the war.

By: Mister M

Mister M — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:17:09 +0000

Those who hate Japan need to understand the mainpoint of visiting Yasukuni is not based on respect toward war criminals, but to pray for those souls who fought for Japan(incuding Koreans)and vows to never make a war again and to keep the contry safe and peaceful.

By: edwardhasnewgoggles

edwardhasnewgoggles — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:26:58 +0000

Yasukuni is the most overrated temple in Japan, hands down.

By: Mary Witzl

Mary Witzl — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:34:51 +0000

Good for him.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:30:30 +0000

Maybe this will finally make the Nationalist Koreans and Chinese to finally stop complaining about a formal apology.