Japan Unhappy with Korean Courts Order for Mitsubishi to Sell Patents to Pay Forced Laborers
Here is the latest on the forced labor issue between South Korea and Japan:
Here is the latest from the Imperial Japanese forced labor issue with South Korea:
Japan has protested a South Korean court order on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to sell assets in order to pay compensation to two women subjected to forced labor for the company during Japan’s occupation of the Korean peninsula during 1910-1945. Foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Tuesday that the ruling a day earlier by the Daejeon District Court in South Korea was a “clear violation of international law.” “We must avoid serious impacts on Japan-South Korea relations,” Motegi said, describing the court’s decision as “truly regrettable” during a regular news conference in Tokyo.
Relations between the two countries, both important U.S. allies in North Asia, have been dogged by the bitter legacy of Japan’s wartime occupation, and ties soured in 2019 due to a dispute over export controls which has yet to be resolved.
The Daejeon District Court in South Korea ruled on Monday that Mitsubishi Heavy should sell two patents and two trademarks, according to a support group for the women, who are both in their nineties.
Asahi Shimbun
You can read more at the link, but Tokyo believes this issue was resolved with the 1965 pact where $500 million from Japan was given to South Korea. The ROK government at the time could have compensated everyone back then with that money, however it was instead used for the overall development of the country such as improving infrastructure. The money ultimately helped with the country’s economic development at the expense of direct compensation to those effected by Japan’s colonial rule. This is why Japan is so strongly against the court rulings they feel they have already paid compensation.
With that all said when is the ROK government going to launch lawsuits on behalf of victims of North Korea’s kidnappings and provocations in far more recent times than Japan’s colonial rule that began over a century ago?
A lapdog like commie loving Moon Pie won’t let the ROK turn on his handlers in Pyongyang. If he barks enough about Japan at the back door, no one will notice the Norks coming in the front door of the now demilitarized southern part of the DMZ.
Wrong misleading information. The 1965 normalization treaty never mentioned anything in regards to forced labor or comfort women compensation. Also, I wouldn’t call them “compensation” as they were mostly soft loans or borrowed money with little to no interest.
While Japan has a long and storied history of behaving badly, the $500 Million was supposed to even the score.
Leftists, on the other hand, have a much shorter but more bloody history–over 200 Million dead in just the 20th Century–and can only be trusted to prevaricate in the most asinine ways.
They want South Korea isolated from all her neighbors and former allies so the next nork invasion is not only not opposed but welcomed so that the dishonest annoying sods will all be lined up and shot on someone else’s dime.
They actually talk about this, if one cares to listen closely.
Trying to add obligations to a contract after it has been agreed to and signed by both parties is called fraud.
A separate agreement would be required; but in this case, lawfare by thw intransigent South Korean leftists has already pooped in yhe punchbowl.
Trying to cover up incompetence, malfeasance, and corruption is why Argentina invaded the Falklands. It’s why Bill Clinton bombed Serbia. And it’s why Biden is doing all sorts of things to take our attention off the Afghanistan debacle, the COVID-19 fiasco, and the unsustainable border issues. You have seen all the coverage about “Gabby” and “Brian”, right?
How many missing women of color in America last year? How many murdered? Pay no attention says the mass media. “Gabby” was white…
Should have been “not only not unopposed”…
Oh look, US right wingers supporting the Japanese Nazi right winger government which is now furiously rewriting and fabricating the history.
How surprising.
The right for individuals to sue did not disappear with the 1965 Treaty. You should do some research first. GIKorea is just repeating the Japanese rightwing government position, and have taken everything at face value what they have pushed.
The same Japanese government that says:
“For our part, we were not responsible for any wrongdoing and we cannot understand why China and Korea refuse to accept that,” he said.”
https://www.dw.com/en/japans-nationalist-school-books-teach-a-different-view-of-history/a-40092325
Kindergarten school owned by Prime Minister Abe Shinjo, teaching their kids Nazi-style salutes and hate slogans against Koreans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZp5K4S-jw&ab_channel=JapanFarRightNews
But can you imagine what would happen if a German government claims Nazi Germany never forced anybody to work in their slave factories? However, with this strange and unacceptable behavior from Japan which keeps pushing their boundaries with more and more history fabrication, US has always looked the other way, encouraging Japan to push the envelope even further. For the US, there is only one thing that really matters: checking China – even if that means encouraging the Japanese Fascists.
For the Korea-Japan history conflict, fundamentally it’s the US that’s behind the problem. The US kept the same Japanese government that was responsible for the wartime atrocities, and it was the US which let off the hook, the perpetrators of biological human experiments in unit 731. And it’s the US that enables the Japanese government to act more and more like Fascists without any implications.
I suggest, you do some research on what international law lawyers say. The rights for individuals to sue, did not go away with the 1965 treaty between two states.
This is the type of Japanese Fascist government that GIKorea is taking their words at face value. All rightwing Americans care about is countering China, even if it means overlooking the Fascism being pushed by Japanese government.
Japanese Far Right Kindergarten school owned by Prime Minister Shizo Abe, Forces Kids Nazi Salute, and hate slogans against Koreans:
youtube.com/watch?v=drZp5K4S-jw&ab_channel=JapanFarRightNews
Japan indoctrinates their students with fabricated WWII history
dw.com/en/japans-nationalist-school-books-teach-a-different-view-of-history/a-40092325
But the fundamental problem of the history wars in East Asia, is due to America’s neglect in correcting and addressing these issues. The US failed to clean house in Japan after WWII, and instead, they watched South Korea and Japan’s relations fester.
Blah blah blah Beijing talking point blah. Can’t you ever utter something original and adult? You sound like a whiny 5 year.
If South Korea was ready to push Japan on this openly, they could do that in the open. They choose to sneak around and dishonor themselves.
Instead of reaching out for allies, they bite every hand that tries to help (USA Japan, Australia, Philippines, even India) and lift their skirt to the parasite-ridden fat guy up north, the Russians who funded the 625, the Communist Chinese, and a variety of Islamists.
Their country. Their choice.
We’ll see how well it works out.
I hope they wake up; but the boat may have already sailed.
@KM using your own words “The rights for individuals to sue, did not go away with the 1965 treaty between two states.” This is not individuals suing, this is the Korean state suing a publicly owned Japanese company doing private business on Korean soil to specifically give up IP to pay 2 individuals damages for a crime that occurred over 75 years ago. With the exception of the 2 women who were horribly victimized I doubt anyone else involved in this was even alive when this crime occurred. If these women want to engage attorneys and go after the Japanese government then that fits your argument, but picking a random company that was in business during 1910-1945 doesn’t work. If I were these companies, I would tell Korea to pound sand, shutter everything I had in Korea and take a huge loss on my P&L sheets. It will hurt the stock short term, but hurt Korea long term. The Korean courts aren’t going to give all those workers jobs in the tight Korean market or give the women any money for their horrific abuse they suffered, the Korean government failed on that before I was born…
Bla bla bla … US right-winging Scamdemic fake news pushers ranting and raving. How surpised.
GI Korea is wrong about one thing.
The figure.
S. Korea received a total of USD 800 million from Japan(USD 300 mil in economic aid, USD 200 mil in loans, and USD 300 in loans for private trust).
The Park Chung Hee government at that time demanded a total of USD 364 million in compensation based on the 1.03 million Koreans conscripted into the workforce and the military during the colonial period, at the rate of USD 200 per survivor, USD 1,650 per death and USD 2,000 per injured person.
Japan instead provided USD 800 million, although it was more “economic aid” than “compensation.”
Out of that Park Chung Hee paid USD 251 million to the families of the Koreans killed by the Japanese and the rest of the money…well we all know what happened to that money.
Interestingly, three years ago some Koreans decided to sue the Korean government instead of Japan, for the wartime compensation, since it was the Korean government that received the money from Japan
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-forcedlabour-southkorea-idUSKCN1OJ0F7
The news above didn’t seem to have gotten much coverage here.
Typo there. Should have been USD 300 million in loans for private trust.