S Korea endorses 'comfort women' meeting with North

Comfort women issue.

Again.

The logic behind this contentious issue is fundamentally flawed, the poisonous resentment is flowing through the generations, it is totally inappropriate to ask my generation to apologise for past wrongs, it is totally incomprehensible, almost unreal to proportion blame to peoples that are not responsible.

That is what is being demanded here, the dogged pursuit to using any means to extract atonement using politically motivated manipulative emotional blackmail in the 21st century for wrongs carried out before we were born.

I am half Japanese, half English.

This is the same logic, I should stand in front of the mirror, and demand my Japanese half apologise to my English half for atrocities carried out to English POW's in WW2. Utterly bonkers

This is probably the only thing they can use to poke Japan with... Seriously, in Abe's place I would've left this behind long ago. Why the hell should Japan's current generation care for what happened in the past?

Atrocities were committed? Okay, we will learn from it and try not to recreate it. Anything bad we caused? Accept our apology and shut the hell up. Continue poking with this excuse to raise commotion among the new generation? Cut diplomatic ties. There's no use talking / arguing with someone who will not budge like a stubborn brat.

What? Would you be more pleased seeing the whole nation drop to it's knees and beg for forgiveness for actions not committed by them? You seriously have a loose screw.

What I have written could deemed offensive, that is not my intention, I am in Japan at the moment and see the discomfort etched on cousins faces as the subject keeps cropping up on TV and they sit there in uncomfortable silence.

I lost composure and let rip. However I stand by my written sentiments, as they are my true feeling, I know it is not the way to behave, to bark out one emotions in a manner unbecoming, of course if the moderators feel it necessary to remove to maintain the peace, them are the rules.

Youkai, you are right it is the learning process that is most important.

Perhaps rocknroll, you should question why your cousins feel discomfort at the mention of the subject. Yes, the learning process is important. I don't know how old your cousins are, however it's possible your cousins only learned of any atrocities just recently because its been in the news. Maybe that's what makes them uncomfortable?

22 to 26, jototoday, just would like to see closure, I understand and appreciate the history is multi- faceted, it must be difficult to achieve complete accord as to how to deal with the subject matter within the current schooling system, and certain politicians cause huge contention.

So the Japanese are not going to reword or replace their statement of regret over the use of sex slaves, Abe tries to make peace with Park... and yet the SK gov are now making overtures to the Loonies Up North, keeping it going on and on. Sorry, but whatever sympathy I have for these women is quickly eroding, and it isn't their fault, it's the stupid SK government.

I can see few unrepenting Japanese's comments here and that the civilized world would never forget the crime of imperial Japan against other countries. As long as they try to hold their stupid denial of their country's past history and regurgitate like Abe, the world community will have no patient for Japanese people as whole. Have you heard of quote "Sins of father"? Of course the young generation was not part of their "father's sin" but you can not deny it. By mixing irrelevant topics with history of the crime does not negate the truth. I know decent majority of Japanese people do not voice their opinion and now is the time they should be on the right side of topic for the Japanese future generation.