ROK is about to break the 1965 Japan-ROK’s Basic Treaty. If it does, it should repay all the assets left by Japan (60 trillion yen), unpaid wages and compensation to wartime workers and various other economic cooperation costs paid by the Japanese government to the ROK government.
So how much money Japan has been giving to S.Korea at the time, let’s translate the chart above. 1965: 60 trillion yen worth of infrastructure transfers (the Netherlands and the UK billed Indonesia and India respectively) 1965: ¥80 billion plus aid to Japan-Korea Basic Treaty.
1983: Special Economic Cooperation, ¥400 billion 1997: SK currency crisis 1 trillion yen in aid 2002: Japan-Korea World Cup stadium construction loan of 30 billion yen not yet repaid.
2006: The SK economic crisis of Won’s appreciation against other currency, SK government aid of 2 trillion yen (South Korean officials expressed displeasure, saying that Japan’s aid was a nuisance.
2008: The Lehman crisis: ¥3 trillion in aid (South Korean officials expressed displeasure that Japan was being stingy with its aid.
2011: Taiwan donates 40 billion yen for the Great East Japan Earthquake, while South Korea donates a low amount. Furthermore, South Korea is the only country in the world to request a “quid pro quo” for its donation. Other Interest on ODA’s interest-bearing debt.
S.Korea has yet to repay a penny. Moreover, Japan did many other financial aids to SK government. In 1965, Korea’s national budget was 350 million dollars. Combined with the infrastructure left behind, the total was $17.5 billion. Of course, Japan did not have to pay that much.
Here is another the list of a small size projects beside above. These Japanese government subsidies to South Korea are not included in the above 17.5 billion USD. The sum of this projects are also huge. I would like to adding up and show the value of these projects near future.
South Korea drew the “Rhee Seung-man Line” on the high seas in 1952, illegally capturing and taking thousands of Japanese fishermen and abusing them in detention centers and prisons in Busan. SK took over #TAKESHIMA.
The Japanese capitulated to South Korea’s aggressive “hostage-taking” and surrendered civilian assets under the Japan-South Korea Agreement, promising a total of US$500 million (US$300 million for free and US$200 million for compensation),
The US government, under the Clinton and Bush administrations, spent 7 years and 30 million dollars to look into Japanese war crimes. Out of millions of pages of newly declassified material, they were unable to find evidence of forced prostitution by Japanese military.
The US government, under the Clinton and Bush administrations, spent 7 years and 30 million dollars to look into Japanese war crimes. Out of millions of pages of newly declassified material, they were unable to find evidence of forced prostitution by Japanese military.
The final IWG report to Congress was issued in 2007. https://archives.gov/files/iwg/reports/final-report-2007.pdf… The many contemporaneous records of the allied forces at the end of the war clearly identify comfort women as contract prostitutes.
Here’s a compilation of primary source documents, mostly WWII military records of U.S., Allied, Dutch, Australian and Japanese reports and documents, which provides a true description of the comfort women system based on primary source documents.
The following are the lists of comfort stations in China & SE Asia where Korean women worked. The comfort stations were all owned and operated by Korean brothel operators. The Japanese military did not operate comfort stations. The Japanese and Korean soldiers were the customers.
Some Korean operators continued the business even after WW2, and many women were forced into prostitution during the Korean war. “They say we walked into gijichon on our own, but we were cheated by job-placement agencies and were held in debt to pimps”
”One Million Comfort Women and Hostess Tested Under VD Eradicate Policy But eradication of VD seems impossible due to shortages of budget, medicine, and facilities.” The Dong-a Ilbo Jan.15.1955
”The Reality of War-damaged Women becoming Prostitutes
Almost all of 1,274 comfort women for UN soldiers registered to 289 pimps became comfort women due to poor living conditions.” The Kyunghyang sinmum Feb.25.1952
”They(Korean government) URGED us to sell as much as possible to the G.I.’s PRAISING us as ‘Dollar-earning Patriots‘” Ms. Kim said” The New York Times [Jan.07.2009]
An old woman who was operating a comfort woman business for UN servicemen lured five virgins, including 15-year-old girl with promises of getting them jobs in the Military Hospital.” The Dong-a Ilbo Jul.21.1953
”An Evil Pimp Arrested” A whore house operator told a 21-year-old woman that she would pay her debt of 30,000 hwan if she would work for one month as a comfort woman, but when she could no longer endure the suffering and tried to escape, she was illegally confined and beaten numerous times. The Kyunghyang sinmum Jul.14.1954
”Four Country Virgins Lured And Sold as Comfort Women
They were deceived by being told they could get a job in Seoul, and sold to US brothels as comfort women by two female brokers.” The Dong-a Ilbo Feb.18.1963
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