JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER NAOTO KAN RECENTLY APOLOGIZED TO SOUTH KOREA FOR THE OCCUPATION AND COLONIZATION THAT TOOK PLACE 100 YEARS AGO.  THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION ENDED WITH THE WWII PEACE TREATY.  DURING THE FORTY YEARS OF OCCUPATION, THE JAPANESE CHANGED THE KOREAN LANGUAGE, FORCED KOREANS TO SERVE IN THE JAPANESE ARMY, USED KOREANS TO WORK IN JAPANESE WAR PLANTS AND ENSLAVED YOUNG KOREAN GIRLS TO TRAVEL WItH JAPANESE ARMY UNITS TO SERVE AS "COMFORT GIRLS."

IN 1946 THE AMERICAN ARMY OCCUPIED SOUTH KOREA. OUR MISSION WAS TO MOVE THE JAPANESE OUT OF KOREA, WHILE KOREANS IN JAPAN WERE MOVED BACK TO KOREA, THE GIRLS THAT RETURNED TO KOREA WERE OFTEN REJECTED BY THEIR FAMILIES. THOSE GIRLS  REQUESTED OF JAPAN SOME KIND OF CASH SETTLEMENT FOR THEIR "SERVICE," BUT WERE ALWAYS REJECTED. CONSEQUENTLY MANY KOREANS MAINTAIN THAT A SIMPLE APOLOGY IS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE SUFFERING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WITHSTOOD FOR THE FORTY YEARS OF OCCUPATION.  

THE NORTHERN PART OF KOREA WAS OCCUPIED BY THE RUSSIANS AND CONSEQUENTLY BECAME A PUPPET OF COMMUNISM, THEIR LEADER HAS NOT COMMENTED ON THE APOLOGY.

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR A JAPANESE APOLOGY FOR THEIR EXTREME CRUELTY TO AMERICAN PRISONERS, IN PLACES LIKE CAMP O DONNELL AND THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH.  

I WAS A PART OF THE POST WAR OCCUPATION OF KOREA AND MET MANY FINE PEOPLE THERE.

MAYBE AT THIS POINT IN TIME, AMERICANS JUST DON'T CARE.