This chapter argues that Japan’s postwar settlements and assistance have been extensive, while raising grievances about alleged outstanding loan balances, interest payments, and unresolved international frameworks.
It concludes that Japan should assert its positions more firmly in international disputes.
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2019-01-16
Hardly any of the interest has been repaid even now.
And on top of that, they keep saying, “Give us money!”
A chapter I posted on 2018-11-29, titled “The current outstanding loan balance to South Korea is 67.58 trillion yen as state lending (originally scheduled to be fully repaid in 1982),” is in Ameba’s Best 7 by search volume.
The following continues from the previous chapter.
From here to here is my addition.
Addendum.
In fact, it is not only this.
For example, Japan’s copyright law has what is called a wartime extension, under which the rights of foreign works are extended by 10 years in Japan.
In other words, the assumption is that copyrights were not respected during the war.
But did Japan fight for as long as 10 years?
And by that logic, wouldn’t the same apply to the victorious countries as well?
If you look, you will find countless other examples.
Japan’s position as a defeated country has not ended yet.
Even the UN “enemy state clauses” have not been removed.
I want more people to know, as common sense, the postwar settlement costs that Japanese people bled for and squeezed out.
If they do, they can take pride in being Japanese.
Because there is probably no other country that handled its postwar settlement so earnestly.
After World War I, Germany chose the next war due to excessively harsh reparations.
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Even 68 years after the end of the Greater East Asia War, despite having completed all reparations payments worldwide, there still exists a neighboring country that continues to demand apologies and compensation based on fabricated narratives, while having received enormous assistance beyond what was necessary.
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Isn’t the Japanese public’s patience already at its limit?
Isn’t it time to draw a line and settle this?
Without paying interest on IMF-era loans and various other debts, how long should we allow them to keep saying, “Japan must have the correct historical understanding and sincerely apologize and compensate”?
They declare they will keep saying it for the next 1,000 years, no matter how much money they extract, and no matter how much certain politicians apologize.
This is absurd.
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Do you intend to let them keep making incomprehensible claims even to our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and beyond?
Wouldn’t Japan’s response be judged by the world not as cautious kindness, but simply as cowardice?
No matter how much we say “Japanese pride,” “bushidō,” or “yamato spirit” inside Japan, once we step outside the country we realize such words are of no use at all.
Only when we assert what must be asserted, relentlessly, can our true intent and will be conveyed.
That is international common sense.
Shouldn’t we settle this kind of nonsense in our generation?
The current outstanding loan balance to South Korea is 67.58 trillion yen as state lending.
(Originally scheduled to be fully repaid in 1982) There is also 8.9 trillion yen in private financing, yet hardly any interest has been repaid even now.
And on top of that, they keep saying, “Give us money!”
What they are saying is the same as yakuza—no, it is even worse.
To be continued.