My suggestion is that you go to the museum next to the Yasukuni Shrine or read some of the comics of Yoshinori Kobayashi. Then we can talk if Koreans are really the ones with out of whack views.

Sorry, but this is a bold if highly one-sided spin on things. You're right to say that the US harbors no ill feelings towards the Japanese. But such sentiments are highly contingent on whether Japan toes the US line. Let's consider the economic/trade realm you brought up. Yes the US doesn't "hate" Japan when it does well. In fact it actively encouraged Japanese economic development during the Cold War. But that encouragement is conditioned on the fact that Japan does well while not butting in on America's economic superiority. How else to explain the drivel in Michael Crichton's "Rising Sun". (Caveat: while I was not a fan of "Rising Sung", I am a HUGE fan of other Crichton works)

Also, consider what would happen if the Japanese people elected a government that wanted all US military personnel of Okinawa and other areas of Japanese sovereignty? Do you think that US wouldn't "hate" the Japanese then?

As for "marring" the good atmosphere with rhetoric, I'll just say I prefer the truth rather than feel good, hallow rhetoric.

Korean’s bad feeling about Japan comes from Japanese colonialism ended 60 year ago, not because of some actions perpetrated by government to raise Japan heaters kids in Korea.

Japanese colonialism is just history now and that’s what korean schools teach to our kids, which by the way, is a sad history and still makes people to get emotional when teaching and listening this part of Korean history.

Reconciliation between Japan and Korea will (and has to) happen in the future, but not anytime soon. Time cures wounds. Just give time to time.

I don't know how many times I've heard middle-school students go on about how they hate and want to kill the Japanese for what they did to their country.

And Koreans say Americans are racist.

The Japanese aren't completely innocent, but I've never seen crap like that in Japan either. I only lived there a year, so I will admit I could be nieve, but not as nieve as a Korean who hasn't.

Fact is, regardless of how it happened, Japan is one of the largest most successful economies in the world. In fact, so is Germany and South Korea. The Japanese don't hate us, we don't hate them, we buy their stuff, they buy our stuff, nuff said.

It would be nice to see such reconciliation take place between Japan and Korea one day as well."

Actually, if you think about it a bit harder GI, this so-called "reconciliation" that you're talking about isn't really reconciliation at all. I'm sure you'll go on over to dictionary.com to give us an anodyne, semantically disingenuous, cop-out definition of what reconciliation means, but to most reconciliation has deeply embedded within a recognition of equality between the two parties. The US-Japan relationship is nothing like that. Japan, under the auspices of postwar conservative politicians and bureaucrats, subordinated Japan under the American security and hegemonic umbrella. That's how "reconciliation" occurred. Japan abrogates its sovereignty, brings back conservative wartime leaders, embarks on policies of economic growth; all while the US gets its archipelago of bases in the Pacific. As an added bonus, neither Japan or the US feels any compunction to interrogate seriously the acts each side committed during the war. Japan continues to get to say it was the victim and only meant to liberate Asia, while the US continues to be able to entertain the canard that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki was justified. (Note, in the case of Hiroshima I see more gray areas and the reasons for or against the initial dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima more complicated).

Long post short, reconciliation does not come via suppression under a hegemonic structure. Ever.