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    YEAH, IT'S SO CRAPPY, so what do you think the resolution is??

    China estimates that their damage in Nanjing is 300,000 ppl (or even 400,000). (But their statistics is really bad, you know.)

    Some Japanese ppl see this as an overestimation, one Japanese textbook says the number of victims is 200,000. (Though it's no more convincing than another. We don't know.)

    China once relinquished their right to seek reparations, but now they recently started to seek "individual" reparations.

    North Korea also agreed to seek no reparations, but is now also claiming payment for their victims (200,000 comfort women, 8,400,000 laborers), besides economic aid.

    But nobody offers any proof, so the J-gov. should just acknowledge what they claim?? and give out the money that they ask for? Or......??

    Even if Japan agreed to pay, I don't think it would help the individuals that suffered. N-korean gov would use it for another purpose.

    http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...000005-san-pol

    Last year, the S-Korean government's lie to the Korean public was revealed. Now it's clear that Japan and Korea have agreed that the S-Korean government is responsible for individual compensations.

    http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...0156-kyodo-int

    http://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/�`tam...annkyoutei.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respons..._War_II_crimes

    Additionally, Japan agreed $300 million donation and $200 million loan to South Korea as "management of claims" for a former colony. However, the transfer of the money was hidden in South Korea and keeps the Korean public in the dark about the compensation. President Park who had been holding the power when the normalization was completed, was later assassinated, and the omission of compensation for individual Korean is blamed on him.
    It's easy to blame Japan..but China & Korea are responsible for the irrational criticisms towards Japan. (If not totally, at least partially.) They don't let the ppl know what Japan has done to help them. Most Chinese ppl only know that their gov relinquished their claim to reparations, (in chinese they say, 以徳報怨, bullshit!) so they tend to think Japan has done nothing to make up for the past. They get irate because of that. The ppl (Korea & China) know very little about Japanese ODA and contributions. It's like they're taking Japanese money for no reason...

    Is Japan like a goose that can lay golden eggs..? More victims= more money?
    Last edited by osias; Apr 17, 2006 at 20:12.

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