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Yokohama and Seoul: Dealing With Crimes of State in Japan and South Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yonhap News ,
Gavan McCormack  and
S Kamiya
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The maturity and the humanity of states and societies, as in the case of individuals, may be measured by the way they face the darkest moments of their own history. The contrast between recent judgments in courts in South Korea and Japan points to a gulf in terms of civic maturity, with South Korea apparently showing the way to Japan.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , e26
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