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  mshimusaJun. 02, 2009 - 08:10PM JST

  I am gladly heartened to know that Koreans and Japanese aren't the only couples who have experienced friction..Japanese and Chinese don't get along well with each other and Japan and Russia also have an islet dispute over four Kuril islands occupied by former Soviet Union..

  I think the best way to ameliorate often difficult Korea-Japan ties is to increase exchanges of young people from both countries and share opinions and ideas on how to genuinely break the deadlock and open their hearts & minds to each other..Koreans both Government and people always say Japan hasn't apologized enough for its past misdeeds in Korea while Japan says it has said sorry to Korea more than enough..At the behest of U.S.Government in 1965, Korea & Japan set up full diplomatic ties and Japan offers some money as a compensation for damage it caused on Korea..U.S. $ 300 million reparation cost from Japan to Korea is a drop in a bucket relatively speaking but Korean Government used that money to build steel factories and highway from Seoul to Pusan, the Korean port city closest to Fukuoka,Japan..

  That money didn't go to Korean victims of Japan's colonization of Korea so those victims are filing lawsuit against POSCO, the South Korean steelmaker who used reparation money to build factories.. I love Korea and I like Korean patriotism but I wish Koreans stop hating Japan right now..Because I realized the better relations between Seoul & Tokyo, the more Japanese are willing to open up to Koreans..Some positive progress has already been made in Korea-Japan ties so I think good momentum is already showing up in Korea & Japan..Also a Japanese girl in U.S.A. told me that Japan's ancestor originated from Korean Peninsula..Korean themselves are a mixture of Manchurians,Mongols,some Han Chinese and even Japanese races..A lot of Western people know China and Japan well but they don't know Korea well unless CNN shows North Korea fires missiles into East Sea or tests underground nuclear explosions..

  North Korea is tempting Japan to go nuclear so for time being U.S.A. troops must remain in Korea & Okinawa,Japan to stop escalation of potential military build-up competition among China,Korea and Japan and even Russian Far East..We don't need another war to solve regional security dilemmas in Korean Peninsula & North East Asia and prevent mishaps because I think Asia is heading in a wrong direction in the absence of genuine trust between 2 Koreas or among Sino-Korea-Japan triangular relations..We don't have much time to waste anymore discussing Japan's armed invasion of Asia nor can we afford to do so..What we must do is to increase people-to-people exchanges among the neighbouring countries concerned and share ideas on how to build a peaceful community in East Asia..Let's pray for peace in this region and calm down a little bit...I wish my comment will elevate Korea-Japan relations to a new horizon!!!!!

  Posted in: Bridge over troubled waters

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