S Korean activists try to put up statue symbolizing forced laborers during Japanese rule

The people responsible for those actions were executed long ago. Japan was utterly destroyed and imposed a pacifist constitution. 3 peaceful generations of Japanese later what more should be demanded from Japan? When is it enough to move on already?

Good to hear the SK police put a stop to this silliness.

It's funny we always hear only about SK's statues. Never about the others, you have a couple of it in front of the Japanese consulate in Hong Kong for example, with documentation placarded and people guarding.

More nonsense by the anti Japanese nationalists.

These people are not motivated by a desire for remembrance and education, but a simple desire to be hostile and antagonistic towards all things Japanese both in Korea and abroad. We now have comfort women memorials in multiple places in America for example.

As mentioned multiple times, the anti Japan nationalists simply won't accept the fact that the Japanese government had apologized and offered compensation to Korean comfort women. In their eyes, and in the eyes of their blind supporters throughout the world, Japan has 'never' apologized or atoned for the past, and hence deserves to be antagonized everywhere around the globe. Now in order to double up their cause, they're now adopting the forced laborer statue, which will soon be coming to a country near you.

The people responsible for those actions were executed long ago.

That's one of the problems. A lot were NOT. Some went on to become top politicians, prime minister, heads of medical institutions. Some of the most evil people involved with germ warfare were granted amnesty (by the USA!!!!). This isn't just about sex slaves, but the way Japan treated whole countries and their people in general.

So no, things were never solved. You'd have to go to Germany to see how things really should have been done.

So some statues are erected near the embassies. Can you hear them? Because I can sure as hell hear all those black trucks in Japan outside places connected to Chinese and Korean people. That Chinese-Japanese friendship place near Korakuen and Tokyo Dome sure gets its fair share of noise and harassment.

Pukey2, right on!

“Because I can sure as hell hear all those black trucks”

I remember those black trucks with all those Japanese flags & blaring that patriotic music.

They talk the talk, but can’t walk the walk.

Some went on to become top politicians, prime minister, heads of medical institutions. Some of the most evil people involved with germ warfare were granted amnesty (by the USA!!!!). 

So no, things were never solved. You'd have to go to Germany to see how things really should have been done.

Boat loads of German scientists, some members of the SS, were given amnesty and cushy jobs in NASA, DARPA and the nuclear industry.

Wrong statue in the photo! It should be of a slave worker, not a sex worker. Getting crowded on the sidewalk there...

This will never end until Japan has the courage to follow Germany's example. Those who are ignorant will point to Japan's apologies and reparations but if they are not settling the matter then there is more to it. Japan wants to pay and have everyone shut up. Germany has the balls to teach her population (Japan likes revising scant mentions in textbooks). Germany has museums, camps, memorials (Japan promises to share remains of human experimentations they found and then doesn't). Japanese executives and politicians routinely kneel to apologize for scandals and yet it was a German chancellor that knelt before a memorial.

There are many more differences and basically it is not that Japan won't pay, it's that they won't face it head on like Germany. If they did it like Germany then anyone that raised a protest would be seen as unreasonable. Even Merkel nudged them and was like hey... copy what we did but to no avail.