Japanese Foreign Ministry Unhappy with “Bowing Abe” Statue in South Korea
The Japanese government should just ignore something like this since it is in a private garden and not sponsored by the ROK government. Responding to this just drives further attention to it:
The foreign ministry said Tuesday that international courtesy for foreign leaders should be taken into consideration, after a local botanical garden reportedly installed a pair of bronze statues of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bowing on his knees before a wartime sexual slavery victim.
Korea Times
The garden in the eastern county of Pyeongchang plans to unveil the statues next month, according to local media reports. Its sculptor told local media that Japan must atone for wartime atrocities until South Korea accepts and forgives it.
Japan has bristled at the statue, with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga telling reporters Tuesday that the installation of such a statue, if true, is “unacceptable” and would “decisively affect” the relations between the two countries.
You can read more at the link, but if Japan is so upset about this then a private individual in Japan should make a statue of President Moon Jae-in bowing in forgiveness to a Vietnamese woman for the atrocities some ROK troops committed during the Vietnam War.
Private Japanese setting up statues of Moon in Japan would do nothing because they pail in comparison to private Japanese people writing racial hate books on Koreans and private Japanese book stores having entire corners of books showing why Koreans are racially inferior to the Japanese. Also there are many private Japanese people who march every week in Japan, to kill the cockroach Koreans and eliminate them from the earth. A little statue of Moon would do little to invoke more hatred when there are much more stronger messages of calling for ethnic cleansing shouted by Japanese in Japan.
Koreas problem, looking backward instead of forward. The reason Japan was able to walk over and occupy them in the early 1900’s. Late 1800’s Korea chose to stick with the old ways instead of moving forward and paid the price. Make bad choices, get bad results.