She was there as a representative of the G-8 nations, each of which did the same as our representative did. Don’t you think it might have been a bit damaging to our relations with Japan to have refused to honor their dead? It’s not trashing America to show sympathy for the thousands who were killed. I mean, it was Japan’s fault they were killed, but we can still feel sorry for those who had to die for Japan’s mistake.
But she could ask to visit the island where the Japanese soldiers beheaded the American flyers after they were rescued at sea.