#SOUTHKOREA: US$255 Million Settlement Proposed To Settle WWII Japanese Labor Compensation Claims

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The head of South Korea's parliament has proposed a US$255 million settlement to settle a feud over wartime labor compensation with Japan. Both South Korean and Japanese governments would contribute to fund, along with help from large corporations, to compensate 1,500 claimants for their forced labor during World War II. Some families have said they oppose the legislation.

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#JAPAN: Victims Of Forced Sterilization Law To Receive Apology, Compensation

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to issue a statement offering a state apology to those who were subject to forced sterilization under a now-defunct eugenics law after a redress bill clears the Diet.

His statement and the bill’s expected enactment this month to provide ¥3.2 million ($28,600) in state redress to each victim are unlikely to settle compensation disputes, however, as victims are demanding much larger payments. The Eugenic Protection Law was enacted in 1948, and was only repealed in 1996.

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#GREECE: President Renews Claims Against Germany's Nazi Past; Says Reparation Demand Is "Legal"

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Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has defended his nation's claim that it is owed war reparations from Germany. He made the comments after meeting last week with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was in the capital, Athens, on an official visit.

The demands of Greece regarding the reparations for crimes of the "inhuman" Nazi invasion and occupation of Greece during World War II are "legal" and "legally enforceable," Pavlopoulos told reporters.

Merkel, for her part, said Germans are aware of the crimes that Nazis had committed in Greece. However, German officials have in the recent past rejected claims for reparations from Greece, Poland and other nations.

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#POLAND: Legislator Says Germany Owes $850 Billion To Poland As World War II Reparations; Germans Disagree

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Polish parliamentarian Arkadiusz Mularczyk says the German government owes his nation over $850 billion in reparations for damage caused during World War II. Germany has in the past denied such a claim, saying that a 1953 agreement with the Polish government settled all claims. Poland counters that the deal was made with the Soviet puppet government, and doesn't count.

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#POLAND: Gov't Creates Committee To Determine German War Reparations

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Poland's governing conservatives have set up a parliamentary committee tasked with looking into the extent of World War II reparations they claim is owed by Germany. A member of the governing Law and Justice Party says there is no set date for the committee to produce its results. The issue of war reparations, for decades considered as settled, was revived in July by party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Earlier this month Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said Warsaw "has the right" to ask for reparations. Germany disagrees, saying the issue was settled in the 1950s.

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