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smithinjapan, little bit of Hanja is not learned after high school. Japanese still writes with Chinese characters.

It's funny how S.Korea has to "give in" to fix ties, while Japan is claiming their territories. Japan is no better than China.

Japan should stop this nonsense and tell China to go to ICJ if they are so sure about Senkaku. Contradiction anyone?

Genjuro, like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-EAso-E_Dk

Toyota and Honda are boring cars.

Best Japanese invention.

Apsara, Japanese does this everytime. Blame Korea for everything, even their war crimes.

"For 1.2 million Koreans, this meant performing forced labor in Japan and, later, forced military service. By the end of the war, Koreans constituted ONE-THIRD of Japan's industrial labor force, of which 136,000 worked in mines under abominable conditions. Recruitment took place through labor mobilization offices located in local Korean police stations. These were usually staffed by Koreans, and targeted mostly the POOR and DISADVANTAGED."

Nigelboy, so what if there were some volunteers, probably from poor backgrounds, it doesn't erase the fact that Japan did many horrible things to Korea. As for 1905, yes it was forced upon Japan. Go back and learn your history right.

Joseph? Japan saved Korea? Since when? The colonial infrastructures are all gone by Korean war. Japan should be thankful to USA for being so nice to them and giving them money. Japan is USA dog, nothing more.

Thanks to Japan, Korea is divided.

1965 normalization was nothing, but bogus. The compensation was nothing but a loan and many issues in wartime period was not even discussed. Japan is so good!

Good job, China. Japan is going to get hit hard.

Why does Japan keeps loving their past imperial history? I hope Koreo-Japanese relations get worse.

S.Korea, China, and other SE asian countries that were invaded by Japan gave billions in aid to Japan while Japan still denies their crimes. Pitful. This is Japan everyone!

Remember Japan, Taiwan gave billions of aid to your country during Fukushima crisis. Respect your friend! Oh yea, you won't. ha

South Korea should do the same too.

Good luck with that. LOL

Kanji wasn't even suitable to the Japanese language, hence why they are Katakana and Hiragana with it.

Japan had ruined all its neighbors relationships. hahahaha Just another Puerto Rico.

Samuraiblue, not worse than Japan currently is. Japan has a huge debt while South Korea do not.

Kanji isn't even Japanese. It's Chinese characters, nothing much.

I told ya, no nukes for Japan forever.

Japanese nationalism is militarism. If Japan wants a war, then Japan will be nuked. It's nothing but a proxy state nowadays. Another puerto rico.

Japan is surrounded by enemies. hahahaha

I wonder if how this will affect Japanese investments and companies in the coming years.

Bass4funk, Japan should ask China to go to ICJ. USA will not step into this issue, they said it before.

SamuraiBlue, you mean on SM-3 Block IIA, with America but SM-3 wasn't co-developed by Japanese, its an American technology.

Kazetsukai, you forgot one thing, the US isn't going nowhere. It's troops is going to stay in Japan for a long time as in Germany and Italy.

SamuraiBlue, the SM-3 wasn't codeveloped by Japan. Japan bought them and modified it to suit its own needs.

SamuraiBlue, compare to China, Japan lacks firepower in both Air and Land which China easily surpasses. Japan relies on US on everything else. BTW, the JMSDF is relatively equivalent to ROKN but fewer vessels.