Architects of Japan’s wartime apologies have warned the prime minister risks ‘disgracing Japan’s people’ by glossing over war record
Shinzo Abe is seeking to revise Japan's World War II history throughout right denial of the war crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial army to believing that Japan was humiliated by the United States when they imposed the pacifist constitution following Japan's surrender to allied forces. Further history books used in Japanese junior high schools ignore or gloss over the atrocities committed its forces in the name of the emperor.
Abe's beliefs are skewed further by his grandfather Kishi Nobusuke a member of Tojo's war cabinet and former Prime Minister of Japan. Who somehow managed to escape the fate of his fellows who were tried and convicted of war crimes.
Even if Abe were to issue an apology. Don't believe it because he doesn't mean it or believe it.
The two key architects of Japan’s official wartime apologies have urged the country’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to confront atrocities committed on mainland Asia or risk disgracing the honour of the Japanese people.
Tomiichi Murayama, who as prime minister issued an official apology to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, said Abe should “honestly spell out” Japan’s wartime record when he releases a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Pacific war in August.
“International society is watching what he is really thinking,” Murayama said. “It is important to clear up any doubts that he has raised overseas.”
Murayama’s 1995 statement included recognition that Japan had “through its colonial rule and aggression, caused tremendous damage and suffering to the people of many countries, particularly to those of Asian nations”, as well as a “heartfelt apology” to victims of Japanese militarism.
Shinzo Abe is seeking to revise Japan's World War II history throughout right denial of the war crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial army to believing that Japan was humiliated by the United States when they imposed the pacifist constitution following Japan's surrender to allied forces. Further history books used in Japanese junior high schools ignore or gloss over the atrocities committed its forces in the name of the emperor.
Abe's beliefs are skewed further by his grandfather Kishi Nobusuke a member of Tojo's war cabinet and former Prime Minister of Japan. Who somehow managed to escape the fate of his fellows who were tried and convicted of war crimes.
Even if Abe were to issue an apology. Don't believe it because he doesn't mean it or believe it.
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