Comments on: The Victims of the Atomic Bombings http://rokdrop.com/2005/08/09/the-victims-of-the-atomic-bombings/ Serving on the Forgotten Frontier Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:00:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: muruneko http://rokdrop.com/2005/08/09/the-victims-of-the-atomic-bombings/#comment-5038 muruneko Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:34 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/?p=698#comment-5038 Not only atomic-bom victims, but also many Japanese civilians got killed in the WW II. However, only soldiers and its relatives have offcial rights to get compensation, called "ONKYU", from the Japanese government. There are two priciples to make this war compensation policy - i) after the WW II, it was impossible to compensate to all the war deads and injuries, simply because of the insufficient national wealth, ii) it was considered the national hardships for all the Japanese nationals and the hardship should be equally shared by all the Japanese nationals. The compensation to the atomic-bob victims is an exceptional case to the principles. I believe it surely comes from the pure humanitarianism. Those Korean atomic-bomb victims, were former "Japanese nationals", since they came from the peninsula, mainly because of the econimical hardship at that time. However, they haven't been and aren't Japanese nationals after the WW II (their nationalities changed to either NK or SK, whichever they had chosen at the time). Unless they selected to become Japanese natioals at that time (they could have selected this way), they have no official right to shamelessly request Japan for this specific-purpose compensation, since the nation-to-nation compenation to the SK was officially settled in 1965 (It must be noted, the SK president Pak claimed that SK should get the compensation for NK too). There is no international treaty to force Japan to provide the special purpose compensation to the other nantionals. Why the Koreans always have a right to condemn Japan for everything? Not only atomic-bom victims, but also many Japanese civilians got killed in the WW II. However, only soldiers and its relatives have offcial rights to get compensation, called “ONKYU”, from the Japanese government. There are two priciples to make this war compensation policy - i) after the WW II, it was impossible to compensate to all the war deads and injuries, simply because of the insufficient national wealth, ii) it was considered the national hardships for all the Japanese nationals and the hardship should be equally shared by all the Japanese nationals.

The compensation to the atomic-bob victims is an exceptional case to the principles. I believe it surely comes from the pure humanitarianism.

Those Korean atomic-bomb victims, were former “Japanese nationals”, since they came from the peninsula, mainly because of the econimical hardship at that time. However, they haven’t been and aren’t Japanese nationals after the WW II (their nationalities changed to either NK or SK, whichever they had chosen at the time).

Unless they selected to become Japanese natioals at that time (they could have selected this way), they have no official right to shamelessly request Japan for this specific-purpose compensation, since the nation-to-nation compenation to the SK was officially settled in 1965 (It must be noted, the SK president Pak claimed that SK should get the compensation for NK too). There is no international treaty to force Japan to provide the special purpose compensation to the other nantionals.

Why the Koreans always have a right to condemn Japan for everything?

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