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I though this only happen in the US and China, guess Japan are no different when it come to money, Money Talk BS Walk.

It is all about money!

Looking at history, PM Abe you are so full of BS, you have not learn from History at all.

Fact, is US and UN gotten their butt kick by poorly arm communist army, there you go jolly Roger.

If you think US government the master of Japan really want PEACE, they would have ask Japan government to admit it and move on.

Ask yourself why?, with a bunch of lapdogs Japanese government white washing IJA WAR CRIMES, and with US government Blessing, no wonder we are having all this tension.

Just admit and Apologize, advertise in all the Major Medias outlet worldwide, China will have to move on and not bitch about it anymore.

That would be like a pipe dream, asking Japan government to admit it.

Japan government keep denying they did anything, admit it come clean and everyone can move on.

World bank just another US lapdog, same as IMF.

It is easy to pledge any amount, when come time to pay up, you can hardly find the donor.

Better check our neighbour to the south, self appoint global policeman US NSA, they are really a piece of work.

Why? We should never have been in Iraq in the first place.

US need wars, it can't live without it, self appoint Global Bully Policeman US government.

@uniden, There are no such thing as free health care, It is TAX PAYER money that are supporting the system.

Self appoint global policeman US government are so full of it, they US government stared more wars than any other countries combine.

Marcelito, If only they have the brains to think, instead of denials fixture.

That is what US government will do, Turn SEA into another ME ravage with wars.

We all know who got the biggest muscle and size, none other than US, self appoint Global Bully US government.

United States sure knows a thing or two about "bullying smaller nations". It's probably the biggest culprit in that area, although it usually goes beyond bullying into physical violence and massive destruction when deemed necessary. The usual hypocritical bullshit that the world has been fed by the US government.

United States sure knows a thing or two about "bullying smaller nations". It's probably the biggest culprit in that area, although it usually goes beyond bullying into physical violence and massive destructive when deemed necessary. The usual hypocritical bullshit that the world has been fed by the US government.

Self Appoint Global Policeman US Government will always ensure CHAO, BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Vietnam have pledged to look for a peaceful resolution to their dispute in the South China Sea via talks, following a meeting between China's president and the head of Vietnam's Communist Party, state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday.

The Pew Research Center just released the results of a survey on U.S. and Japanese public opinion, particularly how those two countries view each other. My colleague Ankit has already covered the main takeaways from the survey for U.S.-Japan relations; however, the survey also contains interesting tidbits about perceptions of China in the U.S.

First, when asked whether it is “more important for the U.S. to have strong economic ties with” Japan or China, a plurality of Americans (43 percent) chose China, with 36 percent choosing Japan. Interestingly, however, the number of Americans prioritizing strong economic ties with China was substantially higher among young people and minorities. Among the 18-29 year-old demographic, 61 percent of Americans favored economic ties with China, compared to only 28 percent among people 65 or over. Meanwhile, 52 percent of non-whites chose China over Japan, compared to 38 percent of whites. Considering that today’s young people are tomorrow’s policymakers – and that whites are expected to be a minority in the U.S. in 30 years – those discrepancies are worth noting.

The more serious problem for U.S.-China relations is a lack of overall trust. Only 30 percent of Americans say they have a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of trust in China, while a full 25 percent of Americans do not trust China “at all.” Yet if we look only at Americans in the 18-29 age group, the percentage of people who say they trust China climbs to 49 percent (compared to a mere 21 percent of Americans aged 65 or over).

These trust issues have made Americans more supportive of closer ties between the U.S. and Japan. Sixty percent of those surveyed said that China’s military and economic rise makes U.S.-Japan relations “more important.” However, that doesn’t automatically translate to support for Japan’s defense reforms. Americans were fairly evenly split on whether Japan should play a more active military role to help “maintain peace and stability in regional affairs.” Forty-seven percent of Americans agreed, while 43 percent said Japan should actually “limit its military role.” Meanwhile, 68 percent of Japanese want Japan to limit its military role in the region, with just 23 percent favoring a more robust military posture. Both those numbers should be reassuring to China, which decidedly does not want Japan to play a more active military role.

Finally, some more comfort for Beijing – despite seemingly endless media coverage, a full 39 percent of Americans say they have heard “nothing at all” about territorial disputes between China and its neighbors. Forty-four percent said they know “a little” about the disputes, with only 16 percent of Americans saying they have heard “a lot” about them. Compare that to the North Korean nuclear issues, where 39 percent of Americans said they had heard a lot and another 42 percent had heard a little.

When it comes to the perceived quality of trade, however, Americans favor Japan. According to the survey, 55 percent of Americans believe that Japan has a “fair” trade policy with the U.S. while only 37 percent think the same of China. Here again, however, younger Americans and non-whites are both more likely to think China is a fair trader, with 52 percent of both groups calling China’s trade policy fair.

However, it’s worth noting that not too long ago, when Japan was seen as the major economic competitor to the U.S., attitudes were far different. In 1989, only 22 percent of Americans called Japan a fair trader, meaning Japan had an even worse reputation in the U.S. than China does today. But today those old grievances hardly factor into the equation. Only 8 percent of Americans consider the “trade wars” of the 1980s and 1990s the most important event in U.S.-Japan relations. In other words, perceptions of economic “fairness” and competition can change rapidly – 20 years from now, Americans might have forgotten about the economic competition that currently exists with China.

As usual JT will omit and prefer to put China in bad light., according to western media.

Meaning, countries such as Japan, Vietnam and pinoy will be cannon fodder for the US, as long as it doesn't put US in harm way.

It will never go away as long as Japan government kept denying it.

http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2007/s1886480.htm

SHINZO ABE, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER (ON APTN – MARCH 27): As I say here and now, I have always expressed my sympathy toward the comfort women and apologise for the situation they found themselves in.”

CAROL RUFF, DAUGHTER: We want the Japanese Government to admit that these women were forcibly recruited and press ganged into these terrible places where these young women were abused for such long periods, so their entire lives were ruined. An apology is not enough. The trouble with people like my Mother is that for a long time they’ve carried a sense of shame, because you feel that somehow you’ve done something wrong. And they haven’t done anything wrong. But that can be righted if someone admits that they were forced.

JAN RUFF-O’HERNE: We want our dignity back, you know. It’s a small thing to ask. And I think if Shenzo Abe would do this he would make himself very popular in his own country.

CAROL RUFF, DAUGHTER: I think that my Mother’s message has gone right through to my daughter’s generation. I’d like to tell Prime Minister Abe that if you can sit out and wait for all these women to die but then there is another generation of women to follow them and another one after me. We will all continue our mother’s work, that’s what we do.

JAN RUFF O’HERNE: When people hear my story, I think the message, the great message is the message of faith and forgiveness. And that these things will never happen again. That is why I tell these stories , I never want any other women to suffer as I did.

http://www.awf.or.jp/e1/netherlands.html

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/07/national/documents-detail-how-imperial-military-forced-dutch-females-to-be-comfort-women/#.VSR8pZOgQ70

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/opinion/comfort-women-and-japans-war-on-truth.html?_r=0

Show us the proof? Pictures would help. Then we can talk.<<

But bu bu butttttt...we are still trying to get hard solid evidence in regards to WMD from Iraq, maybe if all goes well we can show it in another zillion years.

Jeff Lee, are you from Singapore?, I was born and did my NS in SG, I do not agree with some of LKY policy but I respect him and others in the early days of shaping what SG was and what SG now is.

RIP LKY, I have to admit I respect LKY, Goh Keng Swee, Toh Chin Chye and the early PAP pioneer who work hard to shape Singapore, but not the present MIW they don't deserve any respect.

I do not agree with some of LKY policies, politic are never clean wherever they come from, If politicians can be trusted dog poo can be had for breakfast.

US, will say thanks, but no we are not going there, US will not have any veto power that is why they will decline, unlike IMF US are the 1 and only country to hold veto , that is why they will decline, they can't bully anyone withy my way or the high way...lol

Japan can revise her history and change her JSDF role, so is NK within her own right to do what she think is right.

Thanks to EU and US, Libya has become a hotbed for Islamic State.