Animosity against Korea runs high among Japanese

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Nearly 60 percent of Japanese people said they hate Korea in a survey conducted last year and released Sunday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


Animosity against Korea runs high among Japanese

 

[Delta4Embassy]

And how many not thrilled with the Japanese downwind from Fukushima?

 

[martybegan]

Nearly 60 percent of Japanese people said they hate Korea in a survey conducted last year and released Sunday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


Animosity against Korea runs high among Japanese

Considering the Koreans can't stand the Japanese, I don't see the issue here. They make fun of each other, but continue to do business with each other.

Same thing as between Germans and Russians, Poles and Russians, Poles and Germans, and a host of other countries with common borders/water routes and centuries of history beating the crap out of each other.

 

[Moonglow]

 

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A South Korean scholar claims she is the victim of an “inhumane indictment” after prosecutors charged her with defaming “comfort women” in a book. Park Yu-ha, 58, a professor at Seoul’s Sejong University, held a news conference Dec. 2 to defend her book “Comfort Women of the Empire,” which examines the role of women who were forced to provide sex to wartime Japanese soldiers decades ago.

She came under intense criticism for saying some comfort women “became prostitutes voluntarily.” “(The criticism) is based on the thinking that prostitutes cannot be victims,” Park said. “However, the pain and suffering they endured is no different from that experienced by slaves.” Park was also criticized for describing comfort women as having a “comrade-like relationship” with the Imperial Japanese Army.

South Korean charged with defaming ‘comfort women’ brands indictment ‘inhumane’

This is the main issue that divides the two nations and a notable Korean scholar was indicted for publishing a book on wartime comfort women, who were supposed to be kidnapped by the Japanese military and forced to become comfort women, according to human rights activists and Korean pressure groups representing former comfort women. But after combing through historical documents, Professor Park reached the conclusion that some comfort women became prostitutes voluntarily and stating this historical fact is against the law in South Korea, unfortunately. A comfort woman usually received $150 in advance before signing a contract, which may amount to thousands of dollars today, and some comfort women could afford to buy a house after working for a few years.

1. The origin of comfort women

With Japan's victory in Sino-Japanese war (1894 - 1895) the Korean Peninsula was no longer under the control of Qing Dynasty China. As Japanese military personnels and male workers began to spend time in Korea, women (mostly from Nagasaki and Kumamoto) followed to comfort them. Most of these women were from poor families.

2. Korean comfort women

At first comfort women were all Japanese. But after Korea became part of Japan in 1910, ethnic Korean women (Japanese citizens) also became comfort women. By 1920's Japanese women along with Korean women traveled abroad to comfort Japanese men and ethnic Korean men there. These Korean women were the predecessors of who later became known as Korean comfort women.

3. Comfort women and female troops

Although women were working as prostitutes, some of them had accumulated enough savings to lend money and rent places for secret meetings to men who were fighting for the nation. That is why they were also called female troops and they took certain pride in their contribution.

4. Comfort stations

One shouldn't think comfort women system was created suddenly by Japanese military in 1930's. At first Japanese military licensed existing prostitution houses in Manchuria as comfort stations. As Japan advanced into China and Southeast Asia, more comfort stations were needed. So Japanese military commissioned prostitution brokers to recruit more women and create more comfort stations. Japanese brokers recruited Japanese women in Japan. They owned and operated comfort stations employing Japanese women. Korean brokers recruited Korean women in Korea. They owned and operated comfort stations employing Korean women. (See footnote *3, *4)

5. Two types of comfort women

There were two types of comfort women. (1) Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese women (all Japanese citizens) They were not coerced by Japanese military. (2) Local women in the battlefields (Dutch women in Indonesia, Filipino women in the Philippines, etc.) Dozens of them were coerced by lower ranked Japanese soldiers. These two types should have been treated differently. But when the comfort women became an issue in the early 1990's, all women who provided sex to Japanese military were treated uniformly, and that created a big confusion.

6. The Myth "Korean comfort women were coerced by the Japanese military"

The Korean woman who first claimed this in the early 1990's belonged to Chongsindae during the war. Chongsindae (also called Teishintai in Japanese) was a group of teenage girls conscripted by the Japanese military. They worked in factories to manufacture military equipments and uniforms. Since she was conscripted, she thought comfort women were also conscripted. It wasn't that she fabricated the story. It was an innocent mistake on her part. When I examined the initial testimonies of former Korean comfort women, none of them claimed she was coerced by the Japanese military. The majority of the Korean women were sold by their fathers to the comfort station owners. Some Korean women were recruited on false pretenses by the Korean comfort station owners. Other Korean women were in the world's oldest profession, and they did volunteer to earn good money.

English Translation of Comfort Women Articles by Scholars: Summary of Professor Park Yuha's Book "Comfort Women of the Empire"

 

[Unkotare]

A survey conducted by who.........?

 

[waltky]

UN Security Council takes dim view of lil' Kim's rocket launch...

UN Security Council calls emergency meeting after North Korea rocket launch
Feb. 7, 2016 -- North Korea fired a long-range rocket and placed a satellite into space Sunday morning, an act immediately condemned internationally.

North Korean state news agency KCNA announced a Kwangmyongsong carrier rocket blasted off from Sohae Space Center with a local 9 a.m. launch time. The rocket, carrying a Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite, entered orbit nine minutes and 46 seconds after launch. The rocket launch was confirmed by U.S. Strategic Command spokesman Lt. Col. Martin O'Donnell. "Initial observations, available on the publicly-available website Space-Track.org, indicate these two objects -- NORAD catalog identification numbers 41332 and 41333 -- are at an inclination of 97.5 degrees," O'Donnell said, adding that the incident "did not pose a threat to the U.S. or our allies."

North Korea, officially named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, said the launch was for scientific and "peaceful purposes" -- also stating it plans to launch more satellites in the region. The launch was condemned by the United States, Japan, South Korea, China, Russia, France, Britain and the European Union, who fear North Korea's intention is to test its ballistic-missile capability. An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council will be held Sunday at 11 a.m. at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan to discuss a potential international response.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the launch is "deeply deplorable," adding it violates Security Council resolutions "despite the united plea of the international community against such an act." "This is the second time in just over a month that the DPRK has chosen to conduct a major provocation, threatening not only the security of the Korean peninsula, but that of the region and the United States as well," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement. South Korea said it will begin discussing the deployment of the U.S. THAAD missile defense system in response to North Korea's actions. China said it "regrets" North Korea's actions, but urged "relevant parties" to "refrain from taking actions that may further escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula."

UN Security Council calls emergency meeting after North Korea rocket launch

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North Korean rocket puts object into space, angers neighbors, U.S.
Sun Feb 7, 2016 North Korea launched a long-range rocket carrying what it called a satellite, drawing renewed international condemnation just weeks after it carried out a nuclear bomb test. Critics of the rocket program say it is being used to test technology for a long-range missile.

South Korea and the United States said they would explore whether to deploy an advanced missile defense system in South Korea "at the earliest possible date." The U.S. Strategic Command said it had detected a missile entering space, and South Korea's military said the rocket had put an object into orbit. North Korea said the launch of the satellite Kwangmyongsong-4, named after late leader Kim Jong Il, was a "complete success" and it was making a polar orbit of Earth every 94 minutes. The launch order was given by his son, leader Kim Jong Un, who is believed to be 33 years old. North Korea's state news agency carried a still picture of a white rocket, which closely resembled a previously launched rocket, lifting off. Another showed Kim surrounded by cheering military officials at what appeared to be a command center.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) watches a long range rocket launch into the air in North Korea​

Isolated North Korea's last long-range rocket launch, in 2012, put what it called a communications satellite into orbit, but no signal has ever been detected from it. "If it can communicate with the Kwangmyongsong-4, North Korea will learn about operating a satellite in space," said David Wright, co-director and senior scientist at the Global Security Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "Even if not, it gained experience with launching and learned more about the reliability of its rocket systems." The rocket lifted off at around 9:30 a.m. Seoul time (0030 GMT) on a southward trajectory, as planned. Japan's Fuji Television Network showed a streak of light heading into the sky, taken from a camera at China's border with North Korea.

North Korea had notified United Nations agencies that it planned to launch a rocket carrying an Earth observation satellite, triggering opposition from governments that see it as a long-range missile test. The U.N. Security Council condemned the launch in an emergency meeting on Sunday, and vowed to take "significant measures" in response to Pyongyang's violations of U.N. resolutions, Venezuela's U.N. ambassador said. U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told reporters: "We will ensure that the Security Council imposes serious consequences. DPRK's (North Korea) latest transgressions require our response to be even firmer." The United States and China began discussing a U.N. sanctions resolution after Pyongyang's Jan. 6 atomic test.

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U.N. Security Council condemns North Korean rocket launch
Sun February 7, 2016 - North Korea launched a satellite into space Sunday, its state media reported, triggering a wave of international condemnation and prompting strong reaction from an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council.

Though North Korea said the launch was for scientific and "peaceful purposes," it is being widely viewed by other nations as a front to test a ballistic missile, especially coming on the heels of North Korea's purported hydrogen bomb test last month. Pyongyang carried out both acts in defiance of international sanctions. At an emergency meeting Sunday, members of the U.N. Security Council "strongly condemned" the launch and reaffirmed that "a clear threat to international peace and security continues to exist, especially in the context of the nuclear test."

Security Council members have previously threatened "further significant measures" if there was another North Korean launch and now will "adopt expeditiously a new Security Council resolution with such measures in response to these dangerous and serious violations," according to a statement read by Venezuela's ambassador to the United Nations after the meeting. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the launch is "deeply deplorable" and in violation of Security Council resolutions "despite the united plea of the international community against such an act.

Warning shots fired

South Korean President Park Geun-hye called the launch a "challenge to world peace," while her government announced it would begin talks with the U.S. to deploy a defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, which can intercept missiles in flight. It also planned to reduce the personnel at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a joint economic development zone between the two Koreas, from 650 to 500 "in consideration of safety of our people," the South Korea Unification Ministry said.

With tensions high, South Korea fired warning shots Monday morning after a North Korean patrol boat crossed the maritime border between North and South Korea, South Korea's Defense Ministry said. The North Korean boat withdrew about 20 minutes later, the ministry said. Such incidents are not uncommon, CNN's Paula Hancocks reports. But the timing of this one -- so soon after North Korea's rocket launch -- will likely bring additional scrutiny to the incident, she said.

Satellite in orbit

 

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Nearly 60 percent of Japanese people said they hate Korea in a survey conducted last year and released Sunday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


Animosity against Korea runs high among Japanese

When you read the history of the run-up to the second world war you get the sense the Japanese were a pretty arrogant people who thought they were #1 no matter what, you could almost compare them to today's....well you know what I mean, I don't think they have that sense of entitlement now.

 

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In Asia, it's thought that only the Japanese can be racist, who have been the dominant race in the region, having colonised Korea and Taiwan in the pre-war era. If Koreans are shouting anti-Japanese slogans in violent protests, they are treated like civil rights activists demanding racial equality.

 

[Unkotare]

In Asia, it's thought that only the Japanese can be racist....

No it's not

 

[Rouge Rover]

In Asia, it's thought that only the Japanese can be racist, who have been the dominant race in the region, having colonised Korea and Taiwan in the pre-war era. If Koreans are shouting anti-Japanese slogans in violent protests, they are treated like civil rights activists demanding racial equality.

"Colonised" is a very toned down word for what the Japanese did to Korea.

 

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• Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945) was a deeply ambivalent experience for Koreans. On the one hand, Japanese colonialism was often quite harsh. For the first ten years Japan ruled directly through the military, and any Korean dissent was ruthlessly crushed. After a nationwide protest against Japanese colonialism that began on March 1, 1919, Japanese rule relaxed somewhat, allowing a limited degree of freedom of expression for Koreans.
• Despite the often oppressive and heavy-handed rule of the Japanese authorities, many recognizably modern aspects of Korean society emerged or grew considerably during the 35-year period of colonial rule. These included rapid urban growth, the expansion of commerce, and forms of mass culture such as radio and cinema, which became widespread for the first time. Industrial development also took place, partly encouraged by the Japanese colonial state, although primarily for the purposes of enriching Japan and fighting the wars in China and the Pacific rather than to benefit the Koreans themselves. Such uneven and distorted development left a mixed legacy for the peninsula after the colonial period ended.
• By the time of the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Korea was the second-most industrialized nation in Asia after Japan itself.
• But the wartime mobilization of 1937-45 had reintroduced harsh measures to Japanese colonial rule, as Koreans were forced to work in Japanese factories and were sent as soldiers to the front. Tens of thousands of young Korean women were drafted as “Comfort Women” - in effect, sexual slaves - for Japanese soldiers.
• In 1939, Koreans were even pressured by the colonial authorities to change their names to Japanese names, and more than 80 percent of the Koreans complied with the name-change ordinance.

20th CENTURY: Korea as a Colony of Japan, 1910-1945 | Central Themes and Key Points | Asia for Educators | Columbia University

There were substantial economic benefits to the Japanese colonial rule in Korea, which emerged as the second-most industrialised nation by 1945. But the wartime mobilisation of Korea workers is the worst aspect of the colonial era. While the majority of Korean workers voluntarily went to Japan to find employment, up to 100,000 workers were actually drafted from 1944 to 1945 to make up for a labour shortage. The obvious mistake of the post above is about comfort women who had never been drafted unlike their male counterparts. Comfort women were usually recruited by pimps with the advance payment of $150, which was a monthly income of comfort women, when Korean factory workers only earned $15 per month at the time. Even though it was a form of human trafficking as it's often the case with the prostitution business today, most comfort women from Korea chose the profession of prostitution because they were desperately poor or indebted.