<b>update :</b>
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"...In its report, Harakahdaily quoted Jejak as saying that the embassy's second secretary Takaharu Suegami confirmed money had been paid to the Malaysian government in the 1990s.
In a short email to Jejak clarifying the report, the embassy said it was not aware of any other compensation paid to Malaysia other than the 1967 agreement between Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur.
Under the deal signed in September 1967, the two governments agreed that Japan would pay "blood money" to the Malaysian government being settlement of the issue of compensation to those forced to work on the "Death Railway", an ambitious project by the Japanese imperial power to link Burma and Thailand with 400-kilometres of railway tracks.
The Japanese embassy also further clarified today that the compensation, in the form of grants and services worth some RM25 million to Malaysia, was transfered "around 1970's or 80's", but added that it had to check with its government on the list of victims as well as whether there has been any other compensation..." - <a HREF="http://en.harakahdaily.net/index.php/berita-utama/6514-embassy-clarifies-report-on-death-railway-compensation.html" rel="nofollow">Harakahdaily, 07 January 2013 </a></blockquote>
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