• Japan apologizes for colonial rule of Korea
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[QUOTE] (CNN) -- Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada on Thursday apologized to South Korea for the more than three decades when Japan ruled over Korea, calling the time a "tragic incident." Okada made the rare apology during a joint news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan, Korean state-run media reported. "I believe it was a tragic incident for Koreans when they were deprived of their nation and their identity," Okada said, according to the Yonhap news agency. "I can fully understand the feelings of (Koreans) who were deprived of their identity and nation. I believe we must never forget the victims," he added. Japan controlled Korea from 1910 to 1945. During that time, Japan's military is accused of forcing about 200,000 women, mainly from Korea and China, to serve as sex slaves. They were known as "comfort women" for soldiers in Japan's Imperial Army. There have been street protests and lawsuits in that past in South Korea over the sufferings of the comfort women. At least one other Japanese leader has apologized for the era. In 2001, then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi acknowledged the "enormous damage" inflicted by Japan's military "by colonization and invasion."[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/11/japan.korea.apology/index.html[/url] Better late than never, I suppose. Now only if Britain will apologize to the US :argh:
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;20182368]Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/11/japan.korea.apology/index.html[/url] Better late than never, I suppose. Now only if [b]Britain will apologize to the US[/b] :argh:[/QUOTE] Let's conquer Britain and tax THEM.
Note how there was no apology to North Korea :smug:
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;20182368] Now only if Britain will apologize to the US :argh:[/QUOTE] lol
[QUOTE=Wii60;20182469]lol[/QUOTE] I try
[QUOTE=zombiefreak;20182396]Let's conquer Britain and tax THEM.[/QUOTE] [img]http://chawedrosin.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/pictures_fox_news_history-copy.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Wonky;20182483][img]http://chawedrosin.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/pictures_fox_news_history-copy.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] That picture is so awesome I had to rate it artistic.
[QUOTE=Split3ndz;20182451]Note how there was no apology to North Korea :smug:[/QUOTE] That's the disappointing part.
[QUOTE=Split3ndz;20182451]Note how there was no apology to North Korea :smug:[/QUOTE] NK doesn't deserve an apology.
Now NK will be even more pissed D:
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;20182499]That picture is so awesome I had to rate it artistic.[/QUOTE] I love how I get "disagrees" yet he got several "artistics" :v:
[QUOTE=Split3ndz;20182451]Note how there was no apology to North Korea :smug:[/QUOTE] I wonder if they would even accept that apology.
[QUOTE=Triumph Forks;20182622]I wonder if they would even accept that apology.[/QUOTE] Why wouldn't they? What would be the point of going "fuck off we don't care about your country raping our citizens". ? Then again... it IS North Korea...
they don't have to apologize the fact they got raped by the US atomic bomb, stripped of their military, and the fact we're economically tied since we're so close is enough. they just better supply us with thousand foot gundam when we're at war with North though.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;20182368] Now only if Britain will apologize to the US :argh:[/QUOTE] you threw our fucking tea in the harbour, you should apologize to us
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;20182368] Now only if Britain will apologize to the US :argh:[/QUOTE] Hahaha, here it comes.
[QUOTE=thisispain;20182714]you threw our fucking tea in the harbour, you should apologize to us[/QUOTE] it wasnt fucking us, it was the them indians
[QUOTE=thisispain;20182714]you threw our fucking tea in the harbour, you should apologize to us[/QUOTE] But, we used some of it... It didn't all go to waste!
[QUOTE=Fables;20182791]But, [b]indians[/b] used some of it... It didn't all go to waste![/QUOTE] thats what he meant to say
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;20182778]it wasnt fucking us, it was the them indians[/QUOTE] well i'm sorry running bull, but if it was up to us, you'd be painful anus
[QUOTE=thisispain;20182876]well i'm sorry running bull, but if it was up to us, you'd be painful anus[/QUOTE] since when you were homosexual? not that theres anything wrong with it
It would be even cooler if Japan did a formal apology to China for the shit in WWII. It seems dumb but a lot of Chinese really hate Japan for it still today.
[QUOTE=Nyaos;20183019]It would be even cooler if Japan did a formal apology to China for the shit in WWII. It seems dumb but a lot of Chinese really hate Japan for it still today.[/QUOTE] And the Philippines, Singapore, just about every island they conquered. Apology to the cruel treatments they gave to prisoners of war. A lot of people in the East still hate Japan, think of a entire Army which was more or less like the Waffen SS. The only people I can imagin who hate the Japs in west now are the Chindits and American soldiers during the pacific war.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;20182368]Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/11/japan.korea.apology/index.html[/url] Better late than never, I suppose. Now only if Britain will apologize to the US :argh:[/QUOTE] what the fuck will that do.
[QUOTE=Vasili;20183137]And the Philippines, Singapore, just about every island they conquered. Apology to the cruel treatments they gave to prisoners of war. A lot of people in the East still hate Japan, think of a entire Army which was more or less like the Waffen SS. The only people I can imagin who hate the Japs in west now are the Chindits and American soldiers during the pacific war.[/QUOTE] In Japan's defense, unlike the Germans who did it for the "motherland" or some shit, Japan did it for what they perceived as God. They born, trained, and brainwashed into believing their emperor was God in human form and that they will indefinitely win because they have divine presences. They were always doing the right thing in their mind, no matter how cruel it was, while the Germans questioned their orders and objectives time to time.
Let's say sorry for stuff that happened before we were born. Yeah.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;20182368]Source: [URL]http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/11/japan.korea.apology/index.html[/URL] Better late than never, I suppose. Now only if Britain will apologize to the IRISH :argh:[/QUOTE] Fixed
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;20183198]In Japan's defense, unlike the Germans who did it for the "motherland" or some shit, Japan did it for what they perceived as God. They born, trained, and brainwashed into believing their emperor was God in human form and that they will indefinitely win because they have divine presences. They were always doing the right thing in their mind, no matter how cruel it was, while the Germans questioned their orders and objectives time to time.[/QUOTE] Hence I said they where all like SS, brainwashed radicals.
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;20183203]Let's say sorry for stuff that happened before we were born. Yeah.[/QUOTE] obviously you don't know what apologies mean in the far east
Hardly anyone in Japan and Korea has anything to do with it. They're all dead.
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