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INTEREST: Evangelion Character Designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Attracts Criticism Over 'Dismissive' Twee

Please, please tell me that you are not taking a position where admitting some atrocity happened and framing it as a positive thing is somehow a better moral position than denying the atrocity happened at all. The moment that you stoop to rationalizing wholesale slaughter of women, children, and civilians in general in war you've sunk to the lowest you can get and are in every way no better off than people who deny such things happened at all.

harminia wrote:

The fact that Japan continuously DENIES what they did means it stays relevant. If Japan had accepted they did that and apologised, people could've moved on a little and healed.

They apologise like every other year for it. What SK and China and others don't like is the wording.
But the truth is even if the wording is too ambiguous, this issue won't go away as long as Japan's rivals can use it as a political leverage internationally and, more importantly, back home.

Adding to this, Japan actually did compensated some of the victims multiple times through social organizations but never directly. I don't know how much they compensated though, all I know it wasn't continuous support. At least that what happened in my country.

At this point, this whole debacle is not as simple as "Give a heartfelt apology and compensation." especially towards Korea and China.

Meongantuk wrote:

Adding to this, Japan actually did compensated some of the victims multiple times through social organizations but never directly. I don't know how much they compensated though, all I know it wasn't continuous support. At least that what happened in my country. At this point, this whole debacle is not as simple as "Give a heartfelt apology and compensation." especially towards Korea and China.

Yeah, this is a lot more of a political mess than it can seem at first glance. The Japanese government has apologized, multiple times, and there is a sense in Japan that Korea is really milking Japan's (appalling) war-time conduct for easy political points back home, beyond what is reasonable - hence the "propaganda" comment. Meanwhile, in Korea there's the sense that Japan has never fully admitted to its wrongdoing, and there's an element of truth to that as well, as there's a strong contingent of (voting) Japanese who like to downplay the scale of the problem, or deny it happened outright, and an even larger cohort that feels Japan has already done enough. Even worse, these dismissive attitudes are held and spoken by a number of Japanese politicians and officials, who keep throwing fuel onto the fire. At this point, it's become so ingrained in the political cultures of both nations that it's hard to see a resolution to the problem anytime soon.

Wikipedia seems to have a decently unbiased overview of the whole issue, of both the history of the horrific 'comfort women' system itself, and the political mess that's followed Japan and Korea attempting to come to a final agreement on how Japan should take responsibility for it. Either way, this is an issue with a ton of nuance to it, and twitter is definitely not the place for a discussion on it.

..he's a product of his nation's education system just like many other older generation of Japanese people.

Meongantuk wrote:

Adding to this, Japan actually did compensated some of the victims multiple times through social organizations but never directly. I don't know how much they compensated though, all I know it wasn't continuous support. At least that what happened in my country. At this point, this whole debacle is not as simple as "Give a heartfelt apology and compensation." especially towards Korea and China.

Yeah, this is a lot more of a political mess than it can seem at first glance. The Japanese government has apologized, multiple times, and there is a sense in Japan that Korea is really milking Japan's (appalling) war-time conduct for easy political points back home, beyond what is reasonable - hence the "propaganda" comment. Meanwhile, in Korea there's the sense that Japan has never fully admitted to its wrongdoing, and there's an element of truth to that as well, as there's a strong contingent of (voting) Japanese who like to downplay the scale of the problem, or deny it happened outright, and an even larger cohort that feels Japan has already done enough. Even worse, these dismissive attitudes are held and spoken by a number of Japanese politicians and officials, who keep throwing fuel onto the fire. At this point, it's become so ingrained in the political cultures of both nations that it's hard to see a resolution to the problem anytime soon.