The unenlightened and ignorant people of Europe and the world, represented by former German Chancellor Schmidt, must read this and never again make outrageous accusations against Japan!
You insensitive fellows!
The following is the chapter I sent out on 2013-06-01 titled "Japan paid "reparations" to Italy and Switzerland after the war.
From the blog, "The Nation That Lost the War
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/yamanooyaji0220/e/10f78d33a2d00c1cc5293849122389f8
Japan paid reparations to Italy and Switzerland
As with the vast taxpayer investment and preferential treatment of Okinawa, there is something else that the textbooks and media don't tell us.
It is how Japan sacrificed and dealt with the post-war period.
These are the facts that should in detail in textbooks and reported by the media at every opportunity.
Japan made a sincere effort to get rid of it after the war.
In the United States and Europe and China, and the Korean Peninsula, there are still people who hold Japan responsible for the war.
And even among the Japanese, many feel guilty that Japan did not do enough after the war to deal with foreign countries.
But was Japan's handling of the war inadequate?
Japan has made every possible sacrifice to deal with the post-war process. It has accepted and carried out even the unreasonable ones decided by the other country, not what Japan thought it would be, and it has done so.
The first thing I want to make sure of is that no war can ever be atoned.
At least in relations between countries, some treaty will resolve it, followed by diplomatic ties.
(Especially unless the treaty explicitly states that the post-war process is unresolved.)
Japan has faithfully fulfilled that duty.
We decided on the details of reparations by treaty with each country and paid them.
After the war's defeat, negotiations were after the war, and Japan had no power at all, so we often did as they asked.
If we use a bad word, we could say that Japan, which had no power to oppose them, was picked back up by them as they asked.
The list of compensation is *Remarkation 1.
Please take a look at it.
Many of you may be surprised at this.
Even Switzerland, which should have been a permanently neutral country, and Italy should have been our ally, demanded and received compensation.
Other countries such as Greece, Argentina, and others make us want to tilt our heads in the sand.
When did Japan go to war with Greece and Switzerland?
In addition to this, all Japanese government and private assets abroad, totaling 379.499 billion yen (in 1945), were confiscated.
The amount of assets in the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria is vast.
Incidentally, the starting salary for an elementary school teacher in 1952 was 5,850 yen.
If I were to guess from that, it would be about 25 to 30 times its current value.
It means that it confiscated assets worth more than 10 trillion yen.
The confiscation of these overseas assets is a violation of international law, at least as private investments are concerned.
The confiscation of private assets is strictly prohibited under international law (Article 46 of the Land Warfare Law).
All public and private assets in neutral countries are strictly prohibited from being confiscated.
I can only think that they took money from Japan, which was defeated and unable to resist them, as much as they wanted.
After that, during the occupation, we were forced to pay for the occupation forces' expenses.
Including the cost of golf courses, mansions, and luxury goods took up 1/3 of Japan's national budget.
All of the supposedly well-intentioned American food aid and other Aid was required to be returned with interest, making it the highest amount of post-war spending.
*Also, up to the end of 2003, in the form of ODA to China, we have provided yen loans of about 3.447 trillion yen, grant aid of about 141.6 billion yen, and technical cooperation 144.6 billion yen.*
It is not just money, but lives and livelihoods.
In addition to money, many people lost their lives and livelihoods during the post-war process.
Far more than 10,000 people have been arrested for alleged war crimes, and more than 1,000 have been executed due to military trials.
When it comes to executions without procedure, it is not at all known.
Besides, it had expelled more than 200,000 other people from their jobs by May 1948.
It includes ministers and civil servants and the private sector, with film directors and writers expelled from their jobs.
Is this still not enough?
[All problems solved]
Japan made many sacrifices to deal with the post-war process and then rejoined the international community and established diplomatic relations with other countries.
In other words, our post-war problems with those countries are over.
It punished us, and it paid reparations as it instructed us, and the other side was satisfied with that and established diplomatic relations.
Why do these countries blame Japan now?
If they were dissatisfied with Japan, they should have said so during the reparations negotiations and diplomatic negotiations.
The bottom line is that Japan has developed and become more prosperous than they ever imagined.
I think the intention is to extract money from Japan by the war and subjugate us mentally.
But why would we need to deal squarely with someone who makes another claim after all is said and done?
If there is any mention of the war issue from these countries, the Japanese government should take out the past treaties and proclaim that it is all settled.
As we can see from the Security Council members, the victorious nations' framework is still in effect.
In this situation, it is dangerous to respond to blame with a straightforward argument because they will not abandon the idea that Japan is terrible and the victorious nations are right.
Therefore, we have no choice but to assume it has been settled based on past treaties and so on, which is evident to everyone.
The Japanese government should not fight over the reasonableness of things.
But it is except for the private sector.
The media, journalists, and the speech world, and individuals should be more and more outspoken about the contradictions and falsehoods in Japan's condemnation.
Nowadays, there are effective means of appealing to the public through the internet and video.
We should use these tools to counter-propagandize the Japanese people with confidential money.
Finally, the Japanese spent enormous amounts of assets, money, and human lives to deal with the post-war process.
We did this with more integrity than any other defeated nation in history.
Apart from the reasonableness of the war, I would like to see this fact conveyed in education and the press.
*Note 1.
Reparations and Economic Cooperation Agreement compensation with Burma $20,000,000,000 (¥72 billion). Loan $50 million (¥18 billion).
Arrangement with Switzerland on Claims' Settlement (January 21, 1955, / March 26, 1955). 12.25 million francs in gratuitous grants. Over 2.42 million francs in Swiss assets.
Special Yen Agreement with Thailand (July 9, 1955, / August 5, 1955). 5.4 billion yen in liquidation. 9.6 billion in gratuitous grants.
Protocol on Private Claims Settlement with the Netherlands (March 13, 1956, / June 1, 1956). Claim for damages $10 million (¥3.6 billion).
Reparations Agreement with the Philippines (May 9, 1956, / July 23, 1956).
Reparations $55,000 (¥19.8 billion). Exchange of Notes on $50 million of the same.
Economic Development Loan Arrangement with the Philippines.
Loan of $25,000 million (90 billion yen).
The arrangement on Claims Settlement with Spain (January 8, 1957,/effective immediately). Grant of $5.5 million.
It is Special Yen Protocol with France (March 27, 1957,/effective immediately).1.5 billion in grants without compensation & $479,651.
Arrangement with Sweden on Settlement of Claims (September 20, 1957, / May 2, 1958). 7.25 million crowns granted without compensation.
Reparations Agreement with Indonesia.
Reparations $23,308,000,000 (80,308,000,000 crowns).
Protocol with Indonesia on the Disposal of Former Liquidation Accounts and Other Balances.
Grant-in-aid of $17,691,000,000 (¥63,687,600,000).
Economic Development Loan Arrangement with Indonesia. In the loan arrangement with Indonesia, $40.0 million (¥144.0 billion).
Economic and technical cooperation agreement with Cambodia (March 2, 1959,/July 6, 1959). 1.5 billion in reparations.
Reparations Agreement with Viet Nam (May 13 1959 / January 12 1960).
Reparations $39 million ($14.04 billion).
Loan Agreement with Viet Nam. 7.5 million dollars (¥2.7 billion) in loans.
Economic development loan agreement with Vietnam. Loan $9.1 million (£3.2 billion/¥76 million).
The arrangement on Claims Settlement with Denmark (May 25, 1959,/ effective immediately). Grant of $1,175,000.
Arrangement/Exchange of Notes on Claims with the United Kingdom (October 7, 1960,/ effective immediately). Grant in Aid, £500,000.
Arrangement for Settlement of Claims with Canada (September 5, 1961,/effective immediately) grants $17,500.
Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement with Burma (29 March 1963 / 25 October 1953). Grant-in-aid $14,000,000,000 (¥50.4 billion).
Economic Development Loan Arrangement with Burma. Loans of $30 million (¥10.8 billion).
The arrangement on Claims Settlement with India (December 14, 1963,/effective immediately). Nine million in grants without compensation.
Agreement between Japan and the Republic of Korea on the Settlement of Property and Claims Issues and Economic Cooperation (June 22, 1965,/December 18, 1965). Grant-in-aid $300 million (¥108 billion). Loans of $200 million (¥72 billion).
Exchange of Notes on Private Credit with Korea. Over $300 million in private loans.
The arrangement on Claims Settlement with Greece (September 20, 1966,/effective immediately). Grant-in-aid $161,763.
Arrangement for Settlement of Claims with Austria (November 29, 1966,/effective immediately). Grant, instead of compensation for $16,700.
Agreement of 21 September 1967 with Malaysia (21 September 1967 / 7 May 1958). Grant-in-aid 25 million Malaysian dollars (2,940,000,000).
Agreement of September 21, 1967, with Singapore (September 21, 1967, / May 7, 1968). Grant of 25 million Singapore dollars (2.94 billion yen).
Micronesia Agreement with the United States (April 18, 1969,/July 7, 1969). Grant of $5 million (¥1.8 billion).
Italy (July 18, 1972,/effective immediately). 1.2 million in grant aid.
(North Vietnam and October 11, 1975,/effective immediately). 8.5 billion in grant-in-aid.
(Viet Nam September 14, 1976, / effective immediately). Five billion yen in grant aid.
Mongolia (March 17, 1977/August 25, 1977). 5 billion in gifts.
Argentina (June 10, 1977 / effective immediately). Grant-in-aid $270,000.
This article continues.