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☆1st目☆
Apologize to us, Compensate us for what you did in colonial days!
As we've said, it solved...
I don't know what you call "the normalization treaty between Japan and South Korea", You liar!
☆2nd目☆
In January 2005, the South Korean government disclosed 1,200 pages of diplomatic documents that recorded the proceeding of the treaty. The documents, kept secret for 40 years, recorded that South Korea agreed to demand no compensations, either at the government or individual level, after receiving $800 million in grants and soft loans from Japan as compensation for its 1910~45 colonial rule in the treaty.
☆3rd目☆
I... It was we that hardly knew history...
Do you understand it at last?! I'm glad! We'll get along with each other as next-door neighbor...
☆4th☆
We declare an abrogation of the normalization treaty between Japan and South Korea, so you have to apologize to us, compensate us what you did in colonial day!Not enough,Apologize to us million times,Compensate us million times!
This is a TRUE story...
sources
Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea -Wikipedia
Declassified Documents Could Trigger Avalanche of Lawsuits
Seoul Demanded $364 Million for Japan's Victims
Korea Was Most Efficient in Utilizing Japanese Reparation
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『Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea -Wikipedia
The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea was signed on June 22, 1965 to establish basic relationship between Japan and the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
In January 2005, the South Korean government disclosed 1,200 pages of diplomatic documents that recorded the proceeding of the treaty. The documents, kept secret for 40 years, recorded that South Korea agreed to demand no compensations, either at the government or individual level, after receiving $800 million in grants and soft loans from Japan as compensation for its 1910--45 colonial rule in the treaty.[1]
The documents also recorded that the Korean government demanded a total of 364 million dollars in compensation for the 1.03 million Koreans conscripted into the workforce and the military during the colonial period,[2] at a rate of 200 dollars per survivor, 1,650 dollars per death and 2,000 dollars per injured person.[3]
However, the South Korean government used most of the grants for economic development,[4] failing to provide adequate compensation to victims by paying only 300,000 won per death in compensating victims of forced labor between 1975 and 1977.[5] Instead, the government spent most of the money establishing social infrastructures, founding POSCO, building Gyeongbu Expressway and the Soyang River Dam.[6]
The documents also reveals that the South Korean government claimed that it would handle individual compensation to its citizens who suffered during Japan's colonial rule while rejecting Japan's proposal to directly compensate individual victims and receiving the whole amount of grants on the behalf of victims.[7][8]
As the result, there have been growing calls for the government to compensate the victims since the disclosure of the documents. A survey conducted shortly after the disclosure showed that more than 70 percent of Korean people believe the South Korean government should bear responsibility to pay for those victims (ibid.).
The South Korean government announced that it will establish a team to deal with the appeals for compensation, although "It has been the government's position that compensation for losses during the Japanese occupation has already been settled".[9]
Japanese officials had reportedly not been in favor of the South Korean government disclosing the documents because they were concerned about repercussions the disclosure of such diplomatic documents would have on bilateral normalizations talks with North Korea, who reportedly wants more than $10 billion as compensation for its share.[10]
Japan has generally refused to pay damages to individuals, saying it settled the issue on a government-to-government basis under the 1965 agreement.The 1965 Treaty of Basic Relations between Japan and South Korea also declared that: It is confirmed that all treaties or agreements concluded between the Empire of Japan and the Empire of Korea on or before August 22, 1910 are already null and void.
According to Research on the use of reparation from Japan published in 2000 by the Korean Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), South Korea used the money most efficiently among the five countries Japan paid reparation (South Korea, Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam).』]
After reading this ↑, common people think that people in South Korea will never demand an apology to Japan. But, they do.
『Compensation for Colonial Victims Is Not Just a Legal Problem
The government has declassified explosive documents relating to the1965 Korea-Japan Basic Treaty. They show that the government at thetime had originally demanded US$364 million in compensation for some1.03 million Koreans forced into labor or military service during theJapanese occupation.
Based on that disclosure, the bereaved families of victims have demanded compensation from the government.
At the time of the normalization talks, the government intendedto "assume the responsibility for compensating individuals afterresolving all claims including individual ones on a lump sum basis.Propriety by item, criteria and methods for individual compensationwill be worked out."
But in 1975 the government closed the matter by paying a totalof W2,570 million only to the relatives of 8,552 citizens who died inforced labor.
"Since it received the claims fund after it soughtcompensation for 1.03 million victims, the government must compensatethe remaining 1 million-plus victims," bereaved family members of thevictims demand.
The government, citing several reasons, takes the positionthat legal compensation is difficult to implement. To begin with, thegovernment says, though it demanded individual compensation in thecourse of the negotiations, this was a negotiating strategy in itseffort to win sufficient reparations from Japan.
The government also claims that it has no legal responsibilityto compensate individuals because Japan paid the fund in the name ofeconomic cooperation, and because a formula for the use of the fundsprepared at the time makes no mention of individual compensation. Ifvictims of forced labor are compensated, the government says, therearises a problem of equitable treatment of other victims in theindependence struggle. In addition, there is a practical problem: nodocumentary record is available in the country to identify victims offorced labor.
But this is not a matter to be addressed from a legal point ofview only. We must find a formula for compensating the victims one wayor another.
During the normalization talks, the government hurriednegotiations along in a bid to secure foreign capital needed foreconomic development, and it used the claims fund to push ahead withlarge-scale economic projects like the Seoul-Busan expressway andPohang Iron and Steel. In other words, it sacrificed the compensationof individual victims on the altar of economic development.
Under the circumstances, that was unavoidable and for thebenefit of the entire population. But now the government shouldendeavor to resolve the matter from a different perspective.
Japan meanwhile holds that its responsibility for compensationceased with the settlement of negotiated claims, and our government hasleft a document acknowledging this. But the Japanese government,instead of insisting that, legally speaking, its responsibility towardAsian countries has evaporated, should reflect on its moralresponsibility. That is what a lasting political solution must be basedon. 』We Japanese have already made compensation and apologized (see also "Kono Danwa ") to Korean people. But they will never satisfied as long as Japan is more wealthy country than South Korea. No, I don' think so. If GDP of Japan falls down far lower than that of Korean, they do, I bet, demand a compensation and an apology.
Not a few of Japanese don't believe people in South Korea.
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