Posted on 09/28/2021 1:13:26 AM PDT by blueplum
A South Korean court has issued an unprecedented order for assets seized from Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to be sold to compensate World War II forced labourers, prompting Tokyo to protest on Tuesday.
...On Monday, the Daejeon District Court ruled that two patents and two trademarks held by Mitsubishi Heavy should be sold to compensate two female Korean plaintiffs in their 90s, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency....
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$800 million in 1965, was a hell of a lot of money.
Now what Japan did was terrible. There’s no getting around
that. I still believe that if Japan and South Korea came up
with an agreement in 1965, it should be honored.
That would normally make separate suits go away.
If someone these days has a grievance, they should ask why
they didn’t get money from that $800 millions settlement?
Well, they should get paid while they’re still young enough to enjoy it.
“That would normally make separate suits go away.
If someone these days has a grievance, they should ask why
they didn’t get money from that $800 millions settlement?”
This is probably an attempt by elements in Korea, probably backed by Korea’s enemies to force the government to do something to stop this order. Any action the government takes to protect Korea will damage them in future elections. If the government fails to take any action this will end any Japanese investment in SK and will probably cause the remaining Japanese to pull their investments out, which will have a negative impact in SK’s economy. But the real cherry here is permanently damaging any alliance and cooperation of SK and Japan regarding their mutual enemies NK and China.
It’s almost certain the government will take action as the stakes are too high to let it ride. This may or may not lead to a change in government and that new government would then almost be required to do exactly the same damage that would result if the present government does nothing.
This is too brilliant a ploy to have occurred naturally with no intervention on the part of...uhm...someone.
Is this SK”s way to acquire Mitsubishi Heavy cheaply?
Korean courts are wrong to keep old wounds festering and worse, to cut them open again.
Neither nation is now the same as they were pre-WWII. It is time that the current generations of both countries be allowed to move on on the basis of who they are TODAY.
I remember reading a Nat Geo article some years ago and seeing pictures of South Korean restaurants with signs in the windows saying "Americans Not Welcome''.
prove it
Alright big mouth. I don’t have the particular NatGeo article but go to The Diplomat and see it for yourself.
Guess which currently trendy US military demographic those signs were really aimed at?
Misbehaving BLM affiliates, to be precise. They are disliked in Japan, also.
This Nat Geo article was from sometime in the late ‘90’s. I gave up on the magazine years ago when they went leftist.
I’d always had a favorable impression of SK but seeing those pictures was a shock.
I din’t know BLM had made it SK.
The East Europeans don’t tolerate that bs. They shut BLM down real quick.
You are still missing the point a little. Black American soldiers are intensely disliked in Asia for their bad behavior off base. This goes way back to the Fifties. When the sign says “No Americans”, it means they don’t want soldiers of this ilk getting drunk and harassing the female staff. After many well-publicized rape cases in Okinawa, the locals have been trying hard to get the US bases there closed completely.
You go find it yourself, whether on Not Geo or The Diplomat.
You asked for it bozo. I went to The Diplomat and saw it. Are you afraid to?
I can see their animus towards blacks. The picture I saw said “Americans Not Welcome’’ which I took to be all Americans.
Japanese, , Chinese and a lot of Asian countries simply don’t like blacks no doubt for the reasons you describe.
If you made all that effort, you can provide the link.
No here’s what you can do, the same as I did.
Google “South Korean Anti-Americanism’’ and see what comes up, you lazy ass.
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