Man I sure strongly hope so, I totally want good to happen between them! This is really up to us to make that possible..let’s make it happen cause this cannot be done by just one person alone. Want Asia to be united, strong, and prosperous–at least one Hatoyama idea that is cool I want to see happen!

We must without fail　ｌearn from the past to step into the future–very simple! History is just as important as the future. Please do not throw the future down the drain and ruin it. Ignorance would certainly be on thing that would bring us down. Got to make sure the wounds really do not become scars, and I know in our power we can do this if we really seriously want to.
I’m ready how about you? Korea and Japan are brothers in my book, I know we can be cool I wish them well!

The future will be a very cool place, and sure hope we can make it shining bright for Japan, Korea, and the world. It’s so very obvious the future is Asia!

Personally I think it should be brought back. I had heard of this as well, and think it should be encouraged, at least until a certain age.

Well, the Japanese could just say the same thing about Korea. I’m South Korean (sorry for all the mistakes in my comment) who used to live abroad until 3 months ago(not in an English speaking country as you may see). I must say that I’m astonished by my country’s current state : it is a disguised dictatorship(worsening under President Lee after a period of democratisation) ! Everything that is considered to be a threat to the korean image (or to the president’s image -_-) is… DELETED(fired if a person). It’s the same for History classes and books.

In History textbooks or on the net, it’s hard to find something that could say that Ancient Korea was a damn hard place to live in (for instance)… I’d take for example a photo of a korean woman(a commoner, or “less”)from the late Chosun period (early 20th century), who is working “bare-breasted” (if you see what I mean…) and a photo showing chosun peasants, who are really, really, DIRTY. Go and try to find them in Korea. None, all censored… Koreans would only find photos of clean and smartly (and decently) dressed people (I was lucky to find them in a book published by an Italian diplomat who was in Korea in 1903): the diplomat wrote that most women(commoners) in korean wore that shocking outfit(and he’s not alone).
No many koreans would think that our “glorious people” was in that kind of outfit… Anything considered as a nuisance to our “past glory” is deleted. The bottom line is that we are(skillfully) conditioned into thinking that all was fine until the “evil japanese people” invaded… Of course, it was a BAD thing, but before saying that the Japanese are recreating their “criminal” past in order to make it more glorious,and that it is unworthy from a democratic country, we should think about our own censorship system. I’m alarmed by the fact that the UN still considers South Korea as a perfectly democratic country. No wonder that some Japanese think of Korea as a dirty underling of China (January 24th, there will be a new japanese animation : Hetalia Axis Powers… Well the korean protagonist is the worst guy possible damn it… stupid, perverted, doggy… Looks like the scenarist think of us as garbage… I wonder why…-_-#)

Oh gosh… Just hope the situation will improve, because after living in a perfectly democratic country, coming back to a country where an internet news submitter is taken into custody because he is criticising the actual government… A real pain… I won’t refuse a UN paratrooper intervention ^^.

(sorry got off-topic) Oh, and yes… I love japanese people, like I love South Africans, Pakistanis or Austrians.

Please do not hijack Newtonian physics to justify your views.

Japanese invaders killed my paternal grandparents. I don’t hate the Japanese because it happened a long time ago, caused by a very different set of people in a very different time. Hence your linear argument is faulty and illogical. Moreover, we cannot blame the son for what the father did.

Hence, Koreans and Chinese do not have a justifiable reason for hating Japanese because the Japanese is not doing anything to prevent them from achieving their destinies? Even today, there are hardly anyone alive who lived through the war.

My japanese friend, don’t put words in my mouth. “Cause and effect” that’s what I’m trying to show here. I will give you an example:

1. Japan wanted war with USA,
2. Japan Destroyed Pear Harbor,
3. Japan and USA in war.
4. USA wins the war,
5. USA demands Japan’s unconditional surrender,
6. Japans surrenders unconditionally,
7. USA grants Japan new constitution (USA can change Japanese constitution),
8. Japan owes USA war debts (USA can freely stipulate the terms of the debt by himself even today)
9. So …… Japan obeys so eagerly USA.

You see, cause and effect, action and reaction. So simple.
Back to the point, I’m not saying Japanese people must die nor I’m demanding any compensation from Japan, all I’m saying is that there is a historical reason why koreans tend to dislike Japan. That’s it.

Those who do not learn from history…

Korea in the late 19th and early 20th century was going to be made someone’s colony, there was no way around that. Too many prominent Koreans were pushing for more Russian influence or more Japanese influence for there to have been any other result. In the end, those who wanted to join Japan got their wish. Perhaps this is proof of “be careful what you wish for, you just might get it”.

“Don’t dwell in the past”.
Very conveninet for Japan.

Very inconvenient for Korea?

Interview after interview began with sentences such as,”Nothing much happened to me. The Japanese people were not bad. We got along. It was the police that bothered us. I just stayed out of their way. .”（page 5 “Under the Black Umbrella”)

And many Koreans were committed to Japan during the colonial times.
In fact, more than 300000 young men volountarily applied for the Japanese army in the year when the population of Korea, men and women, the children and the old together, was about 2500000.

It might be because of post-colonial Korean nationalistic education that young people learn to express the hatred toward Japan.

Bruce Cumings　says:

For Korean historians, the colonial period is both too painful and too saturated with resistance mythologies that cannot find verification in any archive. North Korea has concocted whole tapestries of events that exist only in the hagiography of Kim Il Sung..In the South one particular decade—that between 1935 and 1945—is an empty cupboard:millions of people used and abused by the Japanese cannot get records on what they know to have happened to them ,and thousands of Korean who worked with the Japanese have simply erased that history as if it had never happened. Even lists of officials in local genealogical repositories (country histories, for example) go blank on this period.page 139/Korea’s Place in the Sun by Bruce Cumings

A Korean man who lived through the colonial period says.

“I’ve overcome my hard feelings towards Japan. It’s often the younger people who are more hostile. They’ve been fed only the worst stories about the colonial period but they don’t know the reality the way we do.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3490835.stm

An expat observes:

Korean students are learning to Hate
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=294782&rel_no=1

I didn’t say hating is logical (but it could be depending on the case). I said the reason why koreans tend to dislike Japan is logical. Are you familiar with the concept “cause and effect”? You see? it is not blind neither irrational, it was provocated.

I think rather than blaming my English ability, you need to check your complex attitudes toward Japan and Japanese.

And the site posts enough items about positive, and thus unassuming, links in the region that I don’t feel like they’re being inflammatory.

What’s wrong with stirring the pot? It keeps the soup from getting burned. Just as long as you don’t throw the pot at anyone else’s head…

What do you hope to accomplish with news stories like this? It very much seems like you’re just stirring the pot.

Give it a break already.

Many Koreans (young) make MPs there to communicate with young Japanese, and make about 20-30 Japanese friends at least.

And yet the same person claims,

especially Japanese are rather cold and unfriendly.

I find it difficult to understand the comment that Japanese are cold and unfriendly after observing the fact 20-30 Japanese made friends with a Korean person.

especially Japanese are rather cold and unfriendly.

That’s exactly the way many of (anti-Japan tilted) Korean people say about Japanese.