Petitie #223: Consider Japan’s moral obligations from the recent past before changing the constitution.

Petitie #223: Consider Japan’s moral obligations from the recent past before changing the constitution.

Excellency,

At the expense of the individual victims of Japan’s occupation of territories in South East Asia during World Two Japan’s wealth grew since the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951. In particular, the Dutch from former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, were denied by this treaty to claim from Japan their individual loss of health and property. The parties to the treaty were generous to the Japanese people despite the cruel violations of human rights by the Imperial Military. The so called Yoshida-Stikker agreement turned out to be a farce leaving the Dutch surviving the Japanese concentration camps with a pittance. The traumas, ill health, loss of property and career they had to endure were forgotten. Those who survived and who are still alive suffer daily from the brutal and sinister treatment in the name of the Emperor at the hands of the Japanse military. (meer…)