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Japan refuses to pay individual Korean victims of colonial era
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 18 - 03 - 2010

Japan's Foreign Affairs Ministry said Thursday that
it would make no reparations to Korean individuals who suffered under
its colonial rule, contradicting a 1965 document, a news report said, according to dpa.
The 1965 document, recently declassified by the ministry and
obtained at the weekend by South Korean media, said Tokyo believed
that Korean forced labourers or conscripts were eligible to seek
compensation as individuals.
However, the ministry told South Korea's Yonhap News Agency
Thursday that it was unclear what the newly declassified internal
ministry document referred to.
Under Japanese colonial rule from 1910 to 1945, thousands of
Koreans were forced to work to support Japan's war effort in jobs
that ranged from serving on the front lines to being abused as sex
slaves for the military.
A bilateral treaty between South Korea and Japan in 1965
established diplomatic ties between the two nations, which included
what Tokyo said is remuneration for unpaid wages to forced labourers.
In the declassified document, Japan acknowledged that the 1965
pact only covered government-level compensation, not individuals'
claims.
"This document shows the Japanese government's thoughts when the
South Korea-Japan pact was established," Choi Bong Tae, a lawyer for
the victims, was quoted as saying by Yonhap. "Japan should make
public all diplomatic documents on negotiations for the [1965] Treaty
of Basic Relations between South Korea and Japan."
Japan's Foreign Affairs Ministry has long claimed that the treaty
resolved all compensation issues, Dr Chung Chin Sung, an advisory
committee member of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for
Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, told the German Press Agency dpa.
Individuals' claims would be rejected even if lawsuits are filed,
the ministry told Yonhap, stating for the first time since 1992 its
position on individual colonial victims' compensation to South Korean
media.
This latest diplomatic hubbub brings into sharp relief a case from
December in which seven South Korean women were paid 99 yen (about 1
dollar) for nearly a decade's worth of forced labour.
"At least this time they admitted that they have legal
responsibility," Chung told dpa in December.
This year is an important one in the two countries' relations as
2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Japan's annexation of Korea.
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama had told South Korean
President Lee Myung Bak that he, unlike his predecessors, had the
courage to address their countries' painful history.


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