A South Korean appellate court on Thursday ordered Japan to compensate a group of 16 women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels, overturning a lower court ruling that dismissed the case and prompting a stern protest from Tokyo.

SEOUL, Nov 23 (Reuters) - A South Korean appellate court on Thursday ordered Japan to compensate a group of 16 women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels, overturning a lower court ruling that dismissed the case and prompting a stern protest from Tokyo.

  • bedrooms@kbin.social
    21·
    10 months ago

    I raised Abe’s name because Abe’s conservative voter base who demanded such a change.

    Get rid of that “this person is not Japanese” attitude. It only humiliates you. Are you a proud nationalist or something?

    • idiomaddict@feddit.de
      1·
      10 months ago

      If someone references the last well known leader to ask about a country, that’s a giant red flag that they’re lying about being from the country. Same for saying “as far as I understand” to describe the situation in that country. I’m not at all humiliated by not automatically believing someone I don’t know online behaving suspiciously, nor does it imply I’m a nationalist.

      • bedrooms@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        If someone references the last well known leader to ask about a country, that’s a giant red flag that they’re lying about being from the country

        And you were wrong. Nice try.

          • bedrooms@kbin.social
            1·
            10 months ago

            that’s a giant red flag that they’re lying about being from the country

            A giant red flag that was wrong. Again, nice try.

            • idiomaddict@feddit.de
              1·
              10 months ago

              Red flags are warnings that you should look into further, which I did. They’re not absolute predictors, but signs to probe. I stand by my question.

              You asked someone else in this thread to produce a type of document that has never existed for anything (a government agreement that a word means a certain thing), then when they couldn’t, explained that an argument made without evidence is meaningless. How is due diligence about the claims people make a surprise to you?

              • bedrooms@kbin.social
                1·
                10 months ago

                You asked someone else in this thread to produce a type of document that has never existed for anything (a government agreement that a word means a certain thing)

                I asked for that document because I suspected it does NOT exist. In a series of trying to prove me wrong, you have only continued to make the wrong assumptions about me. Just stop.

                • idiomaddict@feddit.de
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  In a series of trying to prove me wrong you have only continued to make the wrong assumptions.

                  I don’t think you’re wrong and haven’t tried to do anything to prove you wrong. I asked a question, then I’ve explained why I asked it several times, because you’re the one misunderstanding. It’s obvious that you knew that document couldn’t exist. I brought it up to show that asking if the base of someone’s claim is true is in fact, normal on the internet.

                  • bedrooms@kbin.social
                    1·
                    10 months ago

                    I don’t think you’re wrong and haven’t tried to do anything to prove you wrong

                    That doesn’t make any sense…

                    According to you, you merely asked me if I’m actually a Japanese. No intention to disprove my argument. Instead, you wanted to argue, uhm… what?

                    The only answer I can come up with is the following.

                    1. you intended to attack me by proving I was lying about my nationality, for example a country hostile to Japan doing propaganda
                    2. then you failed
                    3. you have to save your face
                    4. so you claimed that you didn’t fail with your attack, because you were just asking a question

                    If you have an alternative explanation, you are welcome to tell me that.