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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so woke. Why are they apologizing for something that occurred 70 years ago?[/quote]
what is the right time to apologize for something so egregious?

The US apologized formerly to Japanese Americans who were placed in interment camps almost 40 years later. 
East Germany apologized to Jews in 1990 - 45 years after the end of WWII.

The Japanese government have never officially apologized for their war mongering, enslaving and forced prostitution of women across Asia.  A lot of Asians still harbor deep resentment of the Japanese over the fact that the Japanese government still refuses to acknowledge what they did in the early 1900s to the end of WWII.

It is never too late to apologize for systemic racism.[/quote]

The Japanese government has officially apologized numerous times, probably much more than any other governments who were colonial powers like the UK, France, Spain, Belgium, etc.  
Just because you don't know doesn't mean it didn't happen.
People also need to learn to put the past behind and progress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan[/quote]

I always wonder where this narrative stems from, that Japan is the only country that did not repent for the sins of colonialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_Between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea

[i]Japan provided South Korea with $300 million grant in economic aid and $200 million in loans together with $300 million in loans for private trust, a total of $800 million as "reparation fee" that Japan had to pay for their illegal occupation.[8][/i]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment_in_China#:~:text=China%20refused%20war%20reparations%20from,percent%20of%20China's%20ODA%20received.

[i]China refused war reparations from Japan[8] in the 1972 Joint Communiqué. Japan gave official development assistance (ODA), amounting to 3 trillion yen (US$30 billion). According to estimates, Japan accounts for more than 60 percent of China's ODA received. About 25 percent of the funding for all of China's infrastructure projects between 1994 and 1998 — including roads, railways, telecom systems and harbours — came from Japan.[9]
Japanese aid to China was rarely formally publicized to the Chinese people by the Chinese government, until Japan announced that aid was to be phased out. It was finally publicly acknowledged by Chinese premier Wen Jiabao during his April 2007 trip to Japan.[/i]

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Korean left wing politicians and groups are promoting anti-Japan sentiment for their political gain notably since 1990s.
Korea received big sum of compensation and aid from Japan for the new relationship.  No other colonial countries did better. Italy is making efforts recent years.

Korean left-winger should stop spreading misinformation and hate.
Btw I'm a Korean American

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