"China must vote no and not just abstain," said Tong Zeng, a longtime organizer of efforts to force Japan to recognize and apologize for World War II atrocities. "The government may not want to take the lead, but the Chinese people have taken the lead."
In fact, Japan's Prime Minister Kozumi has apologized - but it will never be enough. I wonder how long we will have to wait for any apology from the CCP for the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen massacre? A very long time I suspect. Certainly there will be no need for public remorse from the CCP as long as they can whip up nationalism by demonizing Japan, Taiwan and the U.S.
This is why I don't follow the Japanese war atrocity fury. Today's Japanese generations are not the WW2 generation.
Such logic doesn't translate. I'm not going to pay for what white men did to slaves in America just because I've got light skin. Heck, my family wasn't even in America at the time.
Therefore, whatever happened with Imperial Japan is ancient history. That gov't was destroyed or disbanded a long time ago.