[Aussie Dasher]

I'm glad we didn't hold our breath waiting...

[Pikachu_Dad]

Better late than never.

Hope it is from somebody sincere and not clintonian.

[NZerFromHK]

Compared to the plights of Western POWs at the Japanese hands, China fared far worse with 35 million dead, and sadly the issue has been complicated today by Communist exploits of people's sentiments.

Don't forget September 18 1931!

Don't forget July 7 1937!

Don't forget the Nanking massacre!

Don't forget the 800 brave Chinese soldiers who stood guard at Shanghai for 6 months!

[dennisw]

Japanese were the über racists of Asia back then. They mass murdered Chinese and Filipinos for fun and sport. Not to mention Caucasian POWs

[ansel12]

My father spent almost all of 1939 to 1946 in the war against the Japanese.( He was prewar navy, also on the U.S.S. Marble head). Why don't we know about the horrors the Japanese inflicted on the human race? The answer is "how would that further the lefts anti western civilization agenda"

[TN4Liberty]

Wow. They apologized. I'm sure that makes it better somehow.

[Fresh Wind]

"The terror that each Filipino man, woman and child must have experienced in Manila 61 years ago is beyond the imagination of any sane human being," he said at a memorial to the dead in the Intramuros part of the city.

I wonder if they got a clue, though, on August 6, 1945?

[Caipirabob]

Japan has much to be worried about. Payback's a bitch and the Chinese are patient, especially when it comes to revenge.

When China "erupts", I expect that we'll be hosting many new Japanese "guests". Quite probably for as long as we speak mostly English in this nation.

[bkepley]

Japan was a seriously sick culture, I think as a result of its isolation.

[PzLdr]

One of the major atrocities that can't be laid at the feet of the Japanese Imperial Army.It was done by Imperial Navy troops and marines under command of an admiral who disobeyed Yamashita's order that Manila was to be an open city [Yamashita was at the northern end of Luzon in a gully at the time].

Don't know what happened to the admiral, but MacArthur had Yamashita stretch hemp after the war in war crimes trials held in Manila [he hanged Homma as well], despite evidence of Yamashita's order to leave Manila to the naval troops, and his inability to control them from his own HQ.Big Mac's court used the rationale that Yamashita was responsible for all his troops did, or failed to do, whether contrary to his orders or not. The USSC refused to intervene despite gross irregularities in the trial [triple hearsay comes to mind]. Came back to bite us in the '60s when some of our lefties [the scum that never sleeps] tried to use that as precedent to force the Army to court martial Westmoreland for the My Lai massacre.

[Fishing-guy]

Talk is cheap. The question is have they truly repented?

[aculeus]

No other city, including Warsaw, was as damaged in WWII.

[silverleaf]

Have the Japanese laid any wreaths in Nanjing?

How about back wages plus interest for the POW's who survived to labor in Japanese camps, mines, and factories? Or who survived being medical experiments?

[VOA]

Ryuichiro Yamazaki spoke at a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the 61st
anniversary of the Battle for Manila that left over 100,000 Filipinos
dead and destroyed the city once known as the Pearl of the Orient.

I think the Philippinos would be justified in saying "OK,
nice talk. But since you broke it, now you fix it. Rebuild our Pearl."

[montag813]

"About 100,000 Filipino civilians were killed, many of whom suffered atrocities by the Japanese military," he said. The Battle for Manila began on February 3, 1945 and lasted 28 days

100,000 dead in 28 days for a single city! Yet the American left goes insane over 2,200 Americans dead over 3 years in 2 countries (Afghanistan, Iraq). It is sad that so many Americans have lost the sense of true sacrifice.

[isom35]

still no apology about Godzilla?