Koreans who were part of the Japanese army did not receive pensions. FMTNews
Lee Hak-rae holds of a photo that was taken at a POW camp run by the Japanese Army in Thailand in 1942, at his home in Tokyo on June 25.
But Lee is obsessed by brutal events of 75 years ago that have defined his life: his recruitment into the Japanese army from then-occupied Korea in 1942; his role in building the Thai-Burma railway; being designated a World War Two criminal; and how, he says, he was tossed into the dustbin of history by both Japan and South Korea.
More importantly for Lee, the men have never been afforded the attention and a sense of closure given to their Japanese counterparts. Cribb said it was unfair the Japan gave pensions to their war criminals but not to Koreans who were part of the Japanese army.In 1943, Lee oversaw about 500 Allied prisoners of war building what later became known as the Death Railway between Thailand and Myanmar.
Other prisoners said Lee would stalk their makeshift hospital and “beat up the people he thought to be well enough to work”.
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