Jim comments

This issue is horrendous. The fact that Japan did that in the first place, the fact that they haven't officially apologised, and the fact that elements in the Korean government use this awful episode (of Korea yet again being shafted by Japan) as a way to drive horrendous nationalist propaganda and division, is horrendous.

The people who suffered for so long under the Japanese occupation deserve an apology (Anyone who says otherwise really needs to read their history) However, the people of South America, Asia and Africa who suffered under long colonial rule by Britain, France, Spain, et al also deserve an apology. And because at least two of those countries are still colonial powers and still some of the most powerful, no such apology will ever materialise, which means that Japan will never apologise either.

Got to be time to put the thing to bed and be friends now. Sadly this will probably continue until the last survivors have long passed.

I predict a lot of gold medals for Japan, if it does happen. No one else will show up.