Posted on 01/05/2015 6:43:00 AM PST by Zakeet
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe will "express remorse" for World War II, the Associated Press reports.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that his government would express remorse for World War II on the 70th anniversary of its end in August.[Snip]
He said the government would draft a new statement "that includes Japan's remorse for the war," though he stopped short of saying it would apologize.
The Japan Times has more on the move:
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
We don't need to apologize for the Bataan Death March ... or the rape of Nanking ... or the Burma Railway ... or the Korean sex slaves ... or Unit 731 ... or the Hell Ships ... or the death camps ... or the mass murders ... or anything else ... because according to our history books, none of that stuff ever happened!
The war has not necessarily gone to our advantage...
Obama will finally end the war in Japan by pulling out our troops that are stationed there.
Well, the Japanese have made it obvious that they’d like to see fewer American troops on their islands.
What is the purpose of making such a statement at this point in time?
Maybe we should apologize to the British for all of the tea that we dumped into the harbor.
When I was stationed in Hawaii my daughter’s teacher (8th grade) asked the class if they thought it was right that the US dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. My daughter said, “Yes. Because they started the war and we had to stop it.” He proceeded to talk about the horrors of the bomb.
I told her to ask him about the things you mentioned. When she did he simply asked where she had heard about them. She said, “From my dad. He loves history.”
The teacher (of Japanese decent) told her, “The school doesn’t feel you are mature enough to learn those things. But you will learn them in high school.”
In the same year they were showing videos of the Holocaust in Europe but none of the Japanese atrocities. She never heard about any of it when she got to high school either.
Shinzo Abe didn’t do anything. This is akin to Bill Clinton apologizing for slavery. Not needed.
The nation’s regret over its sins and crimes was taken care of ....we enacted amendments 14, 15, and 16. Japan’s war criminals were pursued and convicted.
Our society REFUSES TO LEARN FROM HISTORY (see: celebration of perversion, money printing, surrendering in foreign theatres of war)....but somehow wants to re-open the old wounds from events long past.
I was tortured by the Japanese. Jack, if you must know; not a pretty story.
It was just their way of having a bit of fun, the swines.
Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.
U.S.-Japan deal withdraws 9,000 Marines from Okinawa
Cable News Network ^ | April 27, 2012 — Updated 0819 GMT (1619 HKT) | Bob Kovach and Chelsea J. Carter
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Roughly half the U.S. Marines on Okinawa will be transferred under an agreement announced Thursday that will reduce the military footprint in Japan, easing local resentments over the amount of land being used by American forces.
Some 9,000 Marines along with their family members will be transferred under the agreement, with about 5,000 being sent to Guam as part of a military buildup on the U.S. territory in the Pacific, according to a joint statement released by the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee.
If we want an apology from them, we should lend them our apoligist-n-chief.
Maybe we should apologize to the British for all of the tea that we dumped into the harbor.
Heck no, we were British too at the time.
Besides, I BET the tea was insured.
Are you listening, Mr. Obama?
obola will probably apologize to Japan for our “luring” them into attacking us.
The Left brayed about us winning WWII in shorter time than it was taking to fight the Iraq war.
The US entered WWII several years into the battle.
The US ended WWII with 2 atomic bombs.
We ceased being at war AGAINST Iraq in short order. Saddam was toppled (and captured) rather quickly and a new government established. After that we fought terrorists alongside Iraqis.
Saying that the “insurgency” meant that the war was not over leads to the conclusion that the Civil War waged for 100 years because the Democrat insurgency (the KKK) battled, tortured, killed, terrorized, and subverted the political process for about that long.
Anytime the Left says “end this war, WWII was won more quickly” suggest using nuclear weapons as the Democrat president did.
The Japanese have never formally apologized for their manifold atrocities in the 30s & 40s, and to this day, their schoolchildren are not taught the horrors their militaristic regime inflicted on the world.
It was our imperialism that drove them to attack us.
Obama has supported the secessionist movement in Hawaii.
Obama is okay with Communist imperialism, Islamic imperialism. His support of Japanese imperialism wouldn’t surprise me.
It’s the never-ending apology.
Japan has done this so many times and given China so much reparation.
But just like here with our race pimps, the Marxist Chinese are perpetual victims.
And Japanese privilege is a mark they must carry forever and forever make amends.
Sound familiar?
Those who were are mostly in their 90s and older and many of them have apologized. Some repeatedly. When I lived there, my bicycle repairman would apologize everytime I took work there. He was a nice old gentlemen and a low ranking draftee during the war. But he witnessed brutality which haunted him the rest of his life. It was almost like I was his priest taking confession.
GOOD one.
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Clinton was our "Commander-in-Briefs."
Obama is our "Apolgist-n-Chief."
DONE DEAL.
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Wikileaks cable hints that Obama wanted to issue apology for Hiroshima
Hotair ^ | 10/12/2011 | Ed Morrissey
The most fascinating part of this was the discouragement given by the Japanese Vice Foreign Minister. Presumably, a Japanese government that got an American President to bow to their national sense of victimhood from the consequences of launching a brutal war of conquest in the 1930sThe cable indicates the Japanese government was then effectively discouraging Obama from visiting Hiroshima despite growing expectations over it following his call for a world free from nuclear weapons in a speech in Prague in April 2009.The most fascinating part of this was the discouragement given by the Japanese Vice Foreign Minister. Presumably, a Japanese government that got an American President to bow to their national sense of victimhood from the consequences of launching a brutal war of conquest in the 1930s — bowing in the rhetorical sense, of course — would have acquired a huge amount of political goodwill. The government in Tokyo at that time certainly needed a political boost.The cable, dated Sept. 3, 2009, and sent to U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton, reported Japan’s then Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka telling Ambassador John Roos on Aug. 28 that antinuclear groups would speculate over whether the president would visit Hiroshima in light of his Prague speech on nuclear nonproliferation.
“He underscored, however, that both governments must temper the public’s expectations on such issues, as the idea of President Obama visiting Hiroshima to apologize for the atomic bombing during World War II is a ‘non-starter’,” said the cable.
Why not let Obama apologize for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then? For one thing, Japan understands better than most that they rely on the American nuclear umbrella for their safety — and not so much from China but from North Korea. At some point, Japan has to decide whether to adopt its own nuclear deterrent to push Kim Jong-il into real negotiations. The last thing they need is an American President using Hiroshima as a platform for unilateral disarmament while China bristles with nukes and the DPRK keeps testing more of its home-grown nuclear devices, which they are apparently preparing to do again.
Obama wisely took Yabunaka’s advice and decided not to address the issue at all. The fact that the Japanese had to tell Obama to curtail his 2009 apology tour is both ironic and, well, appalling.
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