Comments on: You know who else wants reparations? The Chinese

By: BannedbytheGuardian

BannedbytheGuardian — Sat, 24 May 2014 04:22:49 +0000

I’d like China to go after Britain for the Opium Wars . They could demand Charles as honorable token prisoner . Yes please.

By: genes

genes — Fri, 23 May 2014 22:16:28 +0000

“President Obama is not getting a “follow””
No surprise, as low as he bowed to Abe he set his status around that of a Uētoresu.

By: genes

genes — Fri, 23 May 2014 22:12:19 +0000

Last I heard(1980) there were still Koreans in Japan with no status. They were never officially there. Every now and then the two governments would start talking about the problem. Don’t know if they worked it out or the problem just aged out.

By: Bruce Hayden

Bruce Hayden — Fri, 23 May 2014 16:07:27 +0000

I think that the apology, etc. are what will doom this. The Japanese just aren’t going to publicly apologize, at least not until the Chines have nuclear armed bombers above them. If it were just money to the few remaining slave laborers, and it could be done w/o loss of face, then sure, they might just pay them off, as a cheap way to settle the issue. But, not if there is any way that the settlement could be taken as Japanese fault.

By: Neo

Neo — Fri, 23 May 2014 15:53:02 +0000

I’m all for paying reparations to all former slaves freed by Abraham Lincoln.

By: tom swift

tom swift — Fri, 23 May 2014 13:57:01 +0000

Not really. This would be the Second Sino-Japanese War, the one which started in 1937. The Japanese always claimed that the Chinese started it with an “incident” at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing, in much the same way that Germany claimed that Poland started WW2.

By: Juba Doobai!

Juba Doobai! — Fri, 23 May 2014 13:45:26 +0000

Didnt the Chinese start the fight with the Japanese, thinking they were bigger, and then the Japanese turned around and waxed them?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 23 May 2014 13:43:59 +0000

Apparently on the Chinese government is allowed to place Chinese people in forced labor. Also, not so sure about a successor government pressing claims for actions pre-dating its existence. Maybe some vets from the Korean and Vietnam Wars can step forward with claims from treatment directly and by proxy. A whole new world for lawyers.