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Japan, S Korean envoys, execs discuss ways to cool tensions

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South Korea has accused Tokyo of ignoring the suffering of South Koreans under Japan's brutal colonial rule of Korea from 1910 until its defeat in 1945.

Until some South Koreans grow up, there will never be any ease in tensions.

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Time for South Korean youth to realise that past is past. Japan and South Korea must work together to stop the belliference of Kim.

11 ( +26 / -15 )

Northeast asians can't be fooled and can't be divided.

-22 ( +1 / -23 )

Northeast asians can't be fooled and can't be divided.

Really? Because it looks like South Korea is doing a pretty good job of dividing.

11 ( +26 / -15 )

Reading this article is like watching Terminator "An idea is Born" after how many Terminator versions of the movie have been made.

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I think it's time for both Korea and Japan to work together with the aim of cutting diplomatic ties in a peaceful manner. Both countries definately need a break from each other. Japan will do just fine without Korea.

6 ( +17 / -11 )

Another day, another anti-Japan protest in Korea. These paid protestors should grow up.

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@Hokaidoboy

Time for South Korean youth to realise that past is past.

Korean youth are even more hardcore anti-Japan than the elderly.

-15 ( +8 / -23 )

So now it's not just anti-Japan demonstrations, it's anti-U.S. as evidenced by that photo of the US Secretary of Defense. The United States endured 54,246 dead, 100,000 wounded and 7667 still MIA protecting South Korea in 1950/51. In Japan while there are some anti-US protests, the government stands by it's position as a US ally. In South Korea these protesters are lead by the South Korean governments position. Honestly sick and tired of my tax dollars being wasted on this pathetic two faced country.

8 ( +23 / -15 )

Yawn... This is still going on?

10 ( +12 / -2 )

In South Korea these protesters are lead by the South Korean governments position. Honestly sick and tired of my tax dollars being wasted on this pathetic two faced country.

Source? Not mentioned anywhere in the US news.

Maybe you’re relying on news from Japan where everything is controlled by the government.

-15 ( +8 / -23 )

“Although the relationship between Korea and Japan is politically in a severe situation, we have a history of overcoming situations through sharing wisdom,” Nakanishi said.

“Mutual trust and understanding are very important. It is important to keep the dialogue steadily in any environment,” he said.

The best take-away for me. Honest dialogue....followed by praxis.

-12 ( +2 / -14 )

Best way will depend entirely on SKorea which can start by the main troublemaker MOON. can't blame it on midnight so blame it on the Moon..

10 ( +17 / -7 )

Some people miss the point here,this is not just throwing the money on the face of the other and get away with it simply rewriting history textbooks and portraying a country from the agressor to the defender of Asia against the west.

-17 ( +3 / -20 )

I remember the islands of S. Korea that have been bombarded by N. Korea years ago. Those protestors want to stop war exercise and stop GSOMIA I am not against. Just to convince N. Koreans to understand why they want to protest that way, more than any US or Japan military supports.

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The United States endured 54,246 dead, 100,000 wounded and 7667 still MIA protecting South Korea in 1950/51.

Yeah! It was completely about protecting South Korea and not American interests. Let's have a little intellectual honesty, mmmmmkay.

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The fact is very simple. Japan de facto retaliated S. Korea first by citing the civilian legal verdict decided by the Supreme court of Korea. Unlike Japan, S. Korean government can not meddle in the judiciary. Contrary to the widespread belief of Japanese, separation of legal, administrative, and judicial powers is already concretely established in S. Korea.

-15 ( +3 / -18 )

Korean youth are even more hardcore anti-Japan than the elderly.

When, where, who? Found them very decent and friendly on a visit there.

-3 ( +3 / -6 )

Another day, another anti-Japan protest in Korea. These paid protestors should grow up.

They are not being paid to do so.

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Toasted HereticToday  03:40 pm JST

Korean youth are even more hardcore anti-Japan than the elderly.

When, where, who? Found them very decent and friendly on a visit there.

Does that comment apply to you?

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The war wasn't so much about the defense of South Korea but more about stopping communism moving south.

US govt at that time was controlled by communism people, who would never try to stop communism.  McArthur realized that after the war.

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SJToday  03:31 pm JST

The fact is very simple. Japan de facto retaliated S. Korea first by citing the civilian legal verdict decided by the Supreme court of Korea. Unlike Japan, S. Korean government can not meddle in the judiciary. Contrary to the widespread belief of Japanese, separation of legal, administrative, and judicial powers is already concretely established in S. Korea.

Foolish. Let judges at top court sit at the table for every occasions to conclude international treaties then.

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In SK judiciary n govt may b seperate bt moon ja n judiciary is same that's y criminal became justice minister of SK. So it means judiciary n govt is one in Korea n never respect international treaties n law.

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In recent decades, strong anti-Japanese indoctrination has been fostered by the South Korean education system. And this has provoked hatred of Japan on the part of many South Koreans.

The damage is done. And the only solution is to stop inculcating that toxic indoctrination. And let that hatred heal over time. Something impossible with the current political situation. Both in South Korea and Japan. Although the latter to a lesser extent.

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@dougthehead13

The education system of Japan has been notorious in the world. The problem lies in Japanese history education in school, not in Korean schools.

For example,

Absent is a complete record of her imperial ambitions in the neighboring countries of China and Korea, of her provocation and slaughter in the former, and subjugation of the latter.

But old habits are hard to break. Effective authority seeped back to the Ministry in the 1950s and '60s as it took increasing advantage of a textbook screening law passed in 1949 for the original purpose of preventing the inclusion of ultranationalist indoctrination in teaching material. Turning this authority on its head, the Ministry eventually applied it to weaken textbooks' descriptions of Japan's wartime deeds. The Ministry also started. to supply local school districts with textbooks free of charge. Today, the local boards are free to decline a particular text, but only from a selection approved by Tokyo. The national government remains firmly in control of the material taught throughout the land. 

https://www.heritage.org/asia/report/the-pearl-harbor-anniversary-japan-still-says-dont-blame-me

(.pdf version is available there)

University student Mayako Shibata told McClatchyDC in 2014 she "can’t remember any class where she learned why the attack on Pearl Harbor happened. 

https://www.ranker.com/list/how-pearl-harbor-is-taught-in-japan/kellen-perry

After decades of obfuscation, Japan stated today for the first time that bungling within the Foreign Ministry 53 years ago was responsible for Japan's failure to declare war on the United States before launching its attack on Pearl Harbor.

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/21/world/japan-admits-it-bungled-notice-of-war-in-41.html

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US govt at that time was controlled by communism people, who would never try to stop communism. 

No it wasn't.

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SJToday  12:13 am JST

@dougthehead13

The education system of Japan has been notorious in the world. 

Except that Korean JHS students protest against their teachers forcing too much of anti-Japan narratives, as reported recently

3 ( +4 / -1 )

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