I think Koreans are too smart for doing that. By no means they would waste the chance to play the “Victim” card,especially they are certain about Japanese do regret what they did in WW2 and intending to have good relationship at all costs.

I really think that you should learn by history that Japan has been since the end of the war a pacific country that just care about the improvement of itself and other nations including Korea and China. I advice you to study about 1965 – The Normalization of Japan-Korea Relation and what they decided to do. Part of the treat was that Japan should pay compesation to Koreans. They paid compessation to Koreans; however, President Park and his government decided to use this money to urbanize and structurize Korea.

What is the justification for demanding endless apologies after several apologies and compensations from the government and Tennou, other than satisfying Chauvinistic Korean nationalism among many Korean ethnic people?

So does the Japanese government?

The idea of returning the remains in Mimizuka is insane. First, can anyone imagine what a nose looks like after being buried for 400 years? Second, it happened over four centuries ago. It’s not like returning a stolen artwork from a Nazi hoard (personally I think the Stone of Scone should never have been ‘returned’ either). And third, the mound itself does show them respect. Have you ever been there? There is a detailed and far from self-promoting description of what it is, and in Korean as well.

So are you claiming that Japan just paid money to Korea so it could exploit it later? Is that what a trade imbalance automatically means? Was this sinister imperialism behind the Marshall Plan in Europe as well?

Confucianism is stronger in China and Korea than Japan. The economic recovery of Japan is credited to the USA assistance rather than the “Japanese Confucianism”. Japanese financial assistance to Korea were investments made for profit. Look at the Korea-Japan trade balance now, Japan has a surplus of US$ 30 billion. It was never meant to be compensation or assistance.

Lastly, It may be off topic but I think Japan should return the ears and noses buried in Kobe (Mimizuka) to Korea, to be buried in Korean soil. That would be a proper way to show respect to the killed ones.

Abe’s statement should be put in a wider context.

What has been happening at the time of the war or war-like situation as for the sexual abuse of women , as far as I understand, is the followings.

(1)There are cases of rapes.

(2)Military uses local brothels.
ⅰ）Local agents recruit women for prostitutes.
Out of poverty, some women apply for it.
ⅱ）Local agents sometimes deceive and/or force women into brothels.

3)Military is in one way or another involved with the prostitutes to prevent V.D. from spreading.

（ⅰ）Some military just turn an blind eye on soldiers involvement with prostitutes and agent’s abuse of women.

（ⅱ）Some military legalized prostitutes and regulated agents.

（ⅲ）Some military systematically recruited and/or kidnapped women in their own hands to make them prostitutes　.

(1)to(3)(ⅰ）are the case with almost all the military in the world. It happened in Vietnam　and it has been happening elsewhere.
(3)ⅱ）was the case with Japanese military.
Korean military emulated Japanese military in Korean War.
(3)ⅲ）was the case with German during WWⅱ.

The only Japan offered apologies and compensations.
Ironically other nations involved with military exploiting women has been demanding more apologies from Japan while turning an blind eye to their own cases.

What Abe said there was no evidence that Japan was involved in the form of (3)(ⅲ）

English media was biased and misleading in this regard.

The truth of matter is that China and Korea failed to recover from their sufferings and their corrupt governments were not able to overcome their weakness. As Lee Teng Hui mentinoned before, Japan was able to overcome their sufferings which they suffered during the WW2 thanks to their moral tradional and historical values which came from Confucian Teachings. China and Korea were more concerned to recover their national pride, while Japan was more concerned to recover their economy and social status in the society. China and Korea always looked at the past, while Japan looked to the future by improving her people and other people too. Korea and China as well as Phillipines got a lot finalcial help from Japan as well as social and structural investments from Japanese government. To be honesty, Japan is still helping those countries today. The major financial donor of China is Japan followed by the US and Europe. Phillipines with his corrupt government dont go anywhere without foregner investment, and Japan is the one who help them to get rid of poverty. Korea has improved its economy thanks to Japanese money.

“Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said there was no proof the Filipino women were coerced into sex slavery” and that “The US House of Representatives, the Dutch and Canadian parliaments have passed nonbinding motions urging Tokyo to offer a formal apology, but Japan has refused.”

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20080815-154894/Filipino-women-seek-Japans-apology-for-WWII-rapes

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2008/08/15/filipino_women_seek_japans_apology_for_wwii_rapes/

The Russians got the Nazis V2 Rockets while Dr. Wernher von Braun and other Rocket Physicists and Astronautics Engineers defected to the US not stoled according to you, WGP. Dr. Wernher von Braun is known as the father of the United States space program for NASA.

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Ponta, don’t waste your time asking me this question,

Then don’t ask your question in the first place.
Japan has apologized to Korea many times.
Japan has paid reparation to Korea.
It is just that Korean ultra-nationalism does not want to accept the fact and does not want to move on.
I really feel sorry for Korean ethnic intellectual people who are not eroded by Korean ethnocentrism. I am so overwhelmed by Korean ultra ethnocentrism that it is sometime difficult to resist the temptation to —mistakenly—say that ethnic Koreans are ultra-nationalist.

Section 1 of the 25th amendment. It’s not perfectly clear, of course…

huh?

He was a Democrat?

Ohhhhhhhh..”

You prodded us to use our brains (and some of yours who were smart enough to leave your countries) and develop The Bomb to end your wars of agression.

Since then, we have been a superpower.

Thanks very much,

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Yeah, nothing like a flimsy pretext to go to war based on something that the people there knew about already, they proved that with the submarine that they found in the early 2000′s. Not to mention the fact that Hawaii wasn’t even incorporated as a state until 1959, and of course the ham-fisted manifest destiny brandishing idiots waaaaay before that essentially stole the islands with the “bayonet constitution” I believe it was called. Kamehameha bitch.

The article is correct.

But just for your information, the Emperor has visited the cemetery where soldiers killed at Pearl Harbor are buried to express his condolences.

Emperor visits Pearl Harbor cemetery

He was pressured by right wing groups to stay away from the Arizona Memorial, but I’d say that his gesture is valid.

The article is correct.

You gave us the Bomb.

Thanks very much.

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