chucky3176's past comments

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    chucky3176

    Ishihara making sense for once is due to the international flack that Japan is getting.

    U.N. urges Japan to block defamation of 'comfort women' , asks Japan to do something about the hate speeches against Koreans in Japan, and asks Japan to teach the proper history of comfort women in their schools.

    http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behindnews/socialaffairs/AJ201305220071

    This is why I think people like Hashimoto, by bringing international attention to Japan's revisionism, are bringing more and more outside pressure to Japan. Japanese care much about their international reputation.

    Posted in: Ishihara advises Hashimoto to stop tweeting

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    chucky3176

    Even Japan's account surplus is rapidly shrinking, and experts say by 2016 (if not much sooner), it will be in negative territory. By then, Japan will have to fund their debt with foreign borrowings. But who's going to buy Japan debt when their level is approaching 300%? The only thing that Japan has going for them in their export drive at the moment are their suddenly cheaper cars. Take away the auto sector, and they're essentially digging their own hole in the grave, as both their per capita income and purchase power parity GDP sinks to make Japan much poorer.

    Posted in: Japan's trade deficit expands nearly 70% in April

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    chucky3176

    South Korea provides billions in economic aid to Vietnam, becoming the second biggest donor for Vietnam.

    http://www.stoxplus.com/News/100504/1/188/korea-provides-vietnam-$1-2bln-oda-in-2012-2015.stox

    Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse

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    chucky3176

    Quote From JapanFocus:

    Furthermore, the Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission, established under a special law in 2005, has been engaged on a massive enterprise designed to explore precisely the sort of skeletons in the national cupboard that Tamogami in Japan refuses to acknowledge, documenting the claims of the countless victims of former regimes. It makes the claim "we will strive to be an international role model as a truth commission. Korea is the only country in Asia that reveals its shameful past to the public." Through it Koreans do indeed actively and seriously confront their history. The scope of the national project for truth and reconciliation has yet to be formally extended beyond Korea's borders, but Korea is also the only former member of the US-led coalition that fought in Vietnam to have made steps, however tentative, to apologize for the "pain" (Kim Dae Jung's word in 2001), caused to the Vietnamese people. It may be far from perfect, but Korea nevertheless constitutes a beacon of light in Asia calling all countries to do what they must do if democracy is to advance: honestly face their past.

    Gavan McCormack is emeritus professor at Australian National University and a coordinator of Japan Focus. His most recent book is Client State: Japan In the American Embrace, London and New York, Verso, 2007, with Japanese, Chinese and Korean translations published in 2008.

    This article appeared at the South Korean Newspaper Kyunghyang on December 8, 2008 and at Japan Focus on December 9, 2008.

    Recommended citation: Gavan McCormack, “Facing the Past: War and Historical Memory in Japan and Korea,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 50-4-08, December 9, 2008.

    Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse

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    chucky3176

    South Korea officially apologized to Vietnam in 2001:

    From the BBC News:

    World: Asia-Pacific

    Vietnam says no apologies needed

    The Vietnamese Prime Minister, Phan Van Khai, has said his country didn't expect any apologies from the powers that once fought wars on its soil.

    Mr Khai told a news conference at the end of the ASEAN summit that his country wanted to close the past and looked forward to the future.

    His comments came a day after the South Korean President, Kim Dae-jung, officially apologized for his country's actions during the Vietnam war, when South Korean troops fought alongside the Americans.

    Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse

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    chucky3176

    nigelboy, nigelboy, taking an old news from year 2000, a news by the way, which was first reported by left wing semi-quasi-socialist leftwing Hankyoreh newspaper from South Korea, which is demanding an apology from their own government? Where is the coverup? It's the Korean newspapers which first brought the story, my boy. Once again, that still doesn't prove thousands of children were born out of rapes by South Korean troops. All we know is that there may have been massacres by out of control Korean troops, but they were individual war crimes, rather than widespread government policy that Japan had in its place when they committed war crimes. And if you're going to present something as fact, at least give one evidence that thousands of children were born due to rapes.

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    chucky3176

    As far as I have read, the testimony of those comfort woman changes so much that its not considered valid.

    LOL.. yes, invalid for Japanese nationalists, but valid for most of the world. But how convenient...

    Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse

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    chucky3176

    This is exactly the "hypocricy" I'm talking about.

    No, you can't get away using that weak excuse to excuse away horrible Japanese war crimes that have been swept under carpet. There are no Vietnamese children who are coming out and saying they were the results of rapes of their mothers, so therefore they want justice. There are no Vietnamese women who are saying they were kidnapped by South Korean troops, or given promises of riches for helping and serving wounded Japanese soldiers, but then forcibly confined, and forced to have sex with dozens of Japanese soldiers per day. There's no denying that a few rotten apples, who were mad Korean soldiers who saw their buddies getting killed, go crazy and commit war crimes against the civilians, but how does that justify Japanese military government running sex slave rings during WWII?

    Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse

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    chucky3176

    CH2CHO, there's plenty of evidence, the thousands of women themselves who were a living proof, starting 20 years ago.

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    chucky3176

    That's what happens when you rape someone. As Hashimoto states, this is the hypocrisy and the double standard the Korean government and her people uses to downplay their own wrongdoings.

    I don't see where the hypocrisy is. Where's the proof that thousands of children were born due to rapes?

    Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse

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    chucky3176

    Are you aware that there exists no evidence that the "Comfort Women" were coerced either?

    Sure I'm aware. I'm aware that, that's what Japan claims, saying there's no evidence. The strongest evidence is the testimonials of the women from Korea, China, Philippines, Netherlands, and others.

    And Nigelboy, that's just nonsense. Thousands of rapes that resulted in thousands of Korean-Vietnamese children? lol.. that's some terrific reproduction rate. Any chance that some of those children are the result of fraternization between Korean troops (as well as employees of Korean companies) and Vietnamese women? naw... that can't be.

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    chucky3176

    OssanAmerica, with one big difference, from the article itself:

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    the women have made no claims that they were coerced into prostitution by South Korean or American >officials during those years

    Why can't you understand the difference?

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    chucky3176

    I am 100% sure Hashimoto will have a thriving career because most Japanese either openly or secretly agree with him.

    Posted in: Hashimoto's party 'faces extinction,' some media say

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    chucky3176

    lol... this just proves that most powerful Japanese politicians hang out at Japan's 2ch and Youtube sites. The Japanese users over there at those sites have been launching a flurry of internet propaganda wars on Korea for a number of years now, and one of the theme has been that South Korean troops in Vietnam were mass murderers and rapists of Vietnamese women. This theme has been going on in Japan's internet for a long time, and it just shows that some of the users of those sites are also power Japanese politicians.

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    chucky3176

    I wouldn't call it "protected market". The tariffs against foreign goods in Japan are pretty low. It's just the Japanese populace is racist, they won't buy anything other then Japanese goods because they think they're the most superior race, and others can't make the same quality as they can.

    Posted in: Japan's electronics giants still bleeding

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    chucky3176

    I don't see anything wrong with American soldiers having sex with paid Japanese prostitutes who offered their services after Japan's defeat in a war that they started. I'm not sure why the Japanese think they were rapes. There were no rapes, they were all paid prostitutes.

    Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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    chucky3176

    For the sake of argument, let's say they weren't forced or fraudulently lead to battlefield comfort stations. Let's say that for the sake of argument. So the next question is then, did these women who were hired as prostitutes, have the choice to quit after they arrived and saw the conditions? What happened to the women who refused to continue to do their work? Did they have the choice to say, I'm not doing this, I'm going home?

    If the answers are no, then it's still forced prostitution or sexual slavery, even if they were prostitutes. Even in common laws of most civilized nations, it is still against the law to rape prostitutes. So the entire argument that it was OK, because these were paid women, just cannot be justified by using the line that they were professionals.

    Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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    chucky3176

    For those people who keeps insisting there were no proof that the sex slaves were forced, I urge you to read Japantoday's ariticle again and pay particular attention to these sentences:

    Up to 200,000 “comfort women” from Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were forcibly drafted into >brothels catering to the Japanese military during WWII, according to many mainstream historians.

    There is no mainstream evidence that modern militaries other than Japan’s have employed a formal sex >slavery system.

    So instead of insisting on posting garbage hack job selective 'evidences' from 2ch and others, if you want to argue with mainstream historians, you better do a better job of convincing them first. That way, your views become the mainstream views, and Japan's problem of convincing other countries that sex slaves were fake, is also solved.

    Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

  • -4

    chucky3176

    All South Korea said was Japanese diplomat visiting North Korea to talk is unhelpful and won't do much other then help the North Korean propaganda. And people at Japantoday are foaming at their mouths and shaking their fists at South Koreans with hate.

    Whatever...

    Posted in: S Korea, U.S., China differ over visit by Abe's envoy to N Korea

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    chucky3176

    You're not going to get that simply because the evidence or the lack of it indicates that most of these >women became comfort women because of economic hardships or forced by private individuals. This, in >essence, is the heart of the debate.

    The problem with the orgnization like the ones in Korea today are that they should of stopped being so >irrational during 2002 when monies and apologies were made where at that time, the general population >within Japan were very sympathetic towards them. Now, there are pretty much fed up with their ongoing >memorial building overseas campign, statutes in front of the Japanese Embassy, and the ever changing >testimonies of the Korean comfort women.

    Yes indeed, that's the crux of the debate isn't it? Japan says these women were volunteers. Korean women says they aren't. Japan says they are sorry that these women suffered through the war, so here's a few dollars, now please go away. Korean women says not good enough, we don't want your worthless sympathy, we just want you to recognize what you did to us and make it official. Japan says no way, you whores are liars. Round and round it goes.

    Posted in: Hashimoto offers to meet 'comfort women' to apologize

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