Because Japan and Korea have a complicated history. Too long to say :)
Japan vs korea thread
Brandon Flores
Xavier Perez
Is it true that 200,000 korean comfort women during WW2 were no more than sex slaves who were forcefully kidnapped, raped, and massacred by the brutal Japanese army as Korean claims?
Please Read The preface of the final IWG report to Congress.
archives.gov
In search of the evidence to back up the comfort women’s claims, the U.S government investigated the $30 million that was spent over seven years. A large number of US government officials and historians scrutinized 8500000 of the pastofficial documents thoroughly. Alas, there was no any evidence. Eventually, $30 million was wasted in vain.
This report was made by The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group.
It is a United States Government Interagency group.
Please see this Wikipedia article for further information.
en.m.wikipedia.org
James Ward
t. spammer
Isaiah Clark
"Licensed prostitution was legal in prewar Japan, and Allied officials viewed the small part of the overseas system they uncovered as an extension of homeland practices. Prosecuting Japanese soldiers for rape, a notorious crime everywhere the army set foot, took precedence over investigating the circumstances of “comfort women,” who were seen as professional prostitutes, not as unwilling victims coerced into brothels by employees of the Japanese military."
This analysis is in line with the "Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report 49" written in 1944, which describes "A 'comfort girl' to be nothing more than a prostitute or 'professional camp follower' attached to the Japanese Army for the benefit of the soldiers."
The report further stated that this practice was not charged with criminal acts.
"In part to reduce local resentment against Japan and in part to prevent the spread of venereal disease among its ranks, the Japanese military contracted private vendors to set up “comfort stations” for the troops as early as 1932. Again, this practice was known to the Allies but no criminal charges were filed at the trials."
Levi Sullivan
How much has japan compensated Korea, and why does Korea insist that the Japanese never apologised nor compensated for their actions, even to this day?
The only reason? Money.
Korea have never stopped asking for compensation, even until now.
In 1965, Japan and Korea signed the Japan-Korea Basic Treaty, Japan was granted $ 300 million (about 108 billion yen) for free, 200 million dollars (about 72 billion yen) for a fee, 300 million dollars for private loans , The total amount of 800 million dollars [currently converted 4,500 billion yen] was paid.
Japan's private assets in Korea amount to 5.3 billion dollars (1.98 trillion yen, about 15 trillion yen now converted)
Infrastructure improvement introduced in Korea by Japan 【60 trillion yen】
Jonathan Cruz
WE DINDU NUFFIN
Jace Watson
Robert King
in the Japan-Korea Basic Treaty, the following words are written. "Confirm that post-war processing will be complete and ultimately resolved" (Article 2, Article 1 of the Agreement)
However, after the conclusion of the treaty, South Korea utilized the money from Japan for national development without paying individuals for compensation. There is no doubt that the economic growth of Korea, which was said to be "the Han River's miracle", was made with the efforts of the Korean people, with the liquidation paid for this and North and South Korea as the driving force.
And the Korean government surprisingly, has not informed the people about this treaty. Is it to conceal what was diverted to national development without paying to individuals? Or maybe it is to aim for an increase in Japanese hate within the Korean people? Or perhaps both?
For that reason, Korea still considers that Japan is not fulfilling its promise and is outraged. Also, they are suing for damages that ended in Japan, and this is creating one of the big gaps between Japan and Korea. I think that it is necessary to know this well as well as Korean citizens and Japanese people.
Incidentally, this amount of compensation is for all areas of the Korean Peninsula, they took money for North Korea from Japan and used it for South Korea and they’re still asking compensation from japan, even now!
That’s not a very good look for South Korea, who only seem to be thinking of the money.
Jace Walker
Bentley Barnes
It’s survey of the national historians team of USA not Japanese denial.
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>"Licensed prostitution was legal in prewar Japan, and Allied officials viewed the small part of the overseas system they uncovered as an extension of homeland practices. Prosecuting Japanese soldiers for rape, a notorious crime everywhere the army set foot, took precedence over investigating the circumstances of “comfort women,” who were seen as professional prostitutes, not as unwilling victims coerced into brothels by employees of the Japanese military."
>This analysis is in line with the "Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report 49" written in 1944, which describes "A 'comfort girl' to be nothing more than a prostitute or 'professional camp follower' attached to the Japanese Army for the benefit of the soldiers."
>The report further stated that this practice was not charged with criminal acts.
>"In part to reduce local resentment against Japan and in part to prevent the spread of venereal disease among its ranks, the Japanese military contracted private vendors to set up “comfort stations” for the troops as early as 1932. Again, this practice was known to the Allies but no criminal charges were filed at the trials."