The Japanese government went on a fierce legal offensive to keep hidden a list of treasures stolen from Korea during the occupation from 1910 to 1945, in the reasonable expectation that Korea will want them back.
The existence of the list emerged in a deposition from the Japanese government during a trial at the Tokyo High Court over a civic group's demands for access to official documents involving 1965 talks that normalized diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan.
Keiichi Ono, the director of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Northeast Asia Division, said in the deposition that those documents "include a list of national treasures that have not been presented to the Korean government until now" and warned that Seoul may seek their return.
Ono added that the records contain information about how the treasures were stolen from Korea that Seoul would find "difficult to understand."
In 2008, Japan published 1,916 documents related to the 1965 talks but kept the remaining 22 secret. Eight of them, it has now emerged, relate to looted Korean national treasures.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/07/30/2014073001706.html
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