Sydkorea & Japan
2024-03-06
One year after announcing a new initiative to compensate Korean victims of World War II era Japanese forced labor, the South Korean government is still waiting for Japan to signal its cooperation in the effort.
“When we make progress in our resolution, we believe that Japan will respond to it,” said South Korean foreign ministry spokesman Lim Soo-suk, expressing hope that Tokyo would voluntarily contribute funds to a new Seoul-backed public foundation.
Imperial Japan, which allied with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the second World War, committed mass atrocities in China and Korea, including mass rape, human experimentation, starvation, forced labor, sexual slavery, and massacres. The abuses have been a source of diplomatic strife for decades, with denial and apologetics for the atrocities remaining widespread even among top Japanese leaders.
Former Japanese President Shinzo Abe generated outrage in 2013 by expressing support for Imperial Japan’s notorious Unit 731, which conducted human experimentation on prisoners of war from China, Russia, and Korea.
The diplomatic tensions have undermined the United States’ efforts to unite regional players against China, which is viewed as a threat to global Western hegemony.
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