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If we demand apologies and compensation for crimes from the Japanese government but remain silent on the horrors we have ourselves committed, we will never be free from criticisms of hypocrisy

Two recent legal rulings in South Korea are once again threatening to unravel the relationship.

The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. - From Webster’s English Dictionary. Dr. Destiny Thomas, a preeminent scholar of the African American experience, wrote a powerful opinion piece entitled “Urbanism is Complicit in Infra-Structural Racism - And Reparations Have a Place in the Built Environment” articulating the need for reparations for African Americans, the vast majority of which are descendants of enslaved A...

Japan’s Kishida and South Korea’s Yoon are ready to mend relations, but both leaders face problems back home.

Recently, foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan held a bilateral meeting while attending the Munich Security Conference. The foreign ministers discussed two topics. First, they condemned North Koreas latest conducting of an ICBM missile test. Second, the foreign ministers continued the bilateral negotiations on resolving the issue of compensation for the South Korean victims of wartime forced labor.