Monday, December 28, 2015

Take on the Japan-South Korean agreement on the comfort women

Today a group of hundreds of thousands of Korean women got their day in the sun, sadly for them all but a few dozen are still alive to bask in it. The Japanese finally admitted to the dirty secret everybody has known for decades, that their Imperial Army kidnapped women across the Sea of Japan and enslaved them as sex workers with some of then servicing 60 to 70 tiny penised Japanese guys per day.
What bothers us is that this apology took 80 years and when it did we cynically note that the agreed upon damages ($100 million yen) sounds like a lot but is only $8.3million dollars and then it isn't even paid out to the victims as it goes to some fund to be used for healthcare for the survivors. Yeah, this is great but is it just me or does it seem that they waited till there were less than 50 people left, keeping the total amount they had to pay down significantly. And really, for having to be a forced sex slave, these women are now given $180k each in health care when they are 90 years old, health services they are probably already given by their own government.
And for this big acknowledgement of guilt and the minor payment, it finally normalizes relations between the two countries. Pretty small price to pay for Japan I'd say

This would be a big FU from me if I were some 90 year old Korean grandmother who is told that reparations have been made in my name so that we can sell them a bunch of Samsung TV's and get a bunch of PlayStation IVs

No thanks

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