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On December 26 2013, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Yasukuni shrine which was built for commemorating soldiers who had died in service of the empire of Japan from 1876 to the end of World War 2. His visit to the Shrine was denounced internationally because it can be seen as praying for the honor war criminals. Especially his decision to go to the shrine made the victims of the atrocities and the descendants of them suffer. When the time, both South and North Korea were colonized by Japanese government, majority of Koreans were devastated. The government officials hauled both men and women off to Japan. A lot of men were forced to fight for the empire and the rest were performed medical experiments on their bodies. Concurrently, some women were sent to factories which made bullets and clothes. Others were tragically compelled to be sex slaves, known as "Comfort Women". The comfort women are a big issue between South Korea and Japan.

"The Japanese government has maintained that the legal aspects of their wartime aggression were settled in the Tokyo Tribunal and the resulting Tokyo Judgment, as well as the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951, which formally ended the war and stipulated that Japan pay war reparations(Kuki 245-256). “In a Japanese Diet session in June 1991, the government denied the involvement of the state in the comfort system and rejected demands for apologies and compensation, arguing that the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951 and other bilateral agreements with its neighbors had settled all postwar claims of compensation--although none of the above specifically addressed comfort women.”(Kuki 245-256)

Due to Japanese government has ignored legal responsibility and the wail of the women who were co...

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... because there is a contention that Japan has not regretted their miserable behavior. (Patrick 162). "An International jurists' group has added to growing pressure on Japan to compensate victims of its wartime brutality, particularly women forced into sex slavery during the Second World War. The Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists said in a report yesterday that Tokyo should pay so-called 'comfort women' at least $40,000 (L25,000) each as interim atonement for the 'unimaginable' violence and cruelty they suffered at the hands of Japanese soldiers before and during the war. The payment should be increased over time.” (Women's International Network News).
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Both Korean and Japanese know that before committing their wrongdoing during World War two, psychologically a major barrier between us will renew and rebirth in the future. (Patrick 132).

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