Seoul Disappointed at Japanese Lawmaker's Remarks on Colonial Rule

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Seoul Disappointed at Japanese Lawmaker's Remarks on Colonial Rule

The South Korean government on Sunday expressed regret at a Japanese lawmaker's remarks about theJapanese colonial rule on the Korean Peninsular.

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The South Korean government on Sunday expressed regret at a Japanese lawmaker's remarks about theJapanese colonial rule on the Korean Peninsular.

Takami Eto of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Saturday claimed at his party's charter meeting that the annexation of Korea in 1910 was lawful as it had been approved by the League of Nations.

A spokesman of the South Korean Ministry of Foreign and Trade Affairs told reporters on Sunday that "South Korea was disappointed in the lawmaker of Japanese ruling party, who holds wrong view over the history and always utters words against the trend of the times."

"South Korean thinks that such wrong remarks will not do good for the Seoul-Tokyo ties," a statement of the ministry said, stressing, "Relations between South Korea and Japan will not really develop unless correct history view sets up."

The 78-year-old Japanese politician also insisted that an estimate that 300,000 people were killed in the Nanjing Massacre is "a fabricated lie."

The massacre refers to the killing of huge numbers of civiliansin the Chinese city of Nanjing by the Imperial Japanese Army from December 1937 to January 1938.

In 1995, Eto resigned as chief of the then Management and Coordination Agency after commenting that Japan did some good on the Korean Peninsula during its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the country.

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