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Japanese royal offered war apology to China: reportPosted: 10 August 2006 1435 hrs     Photos 1 of 1 Prince Mikasa       TOKYO : A member of Japan's royal family privately apologised to China's president in 1998 over Japan's brutal wartime occupation of the country, a report has said. Official Chinese documents cited by Jiji Press quoted Prince Mikasa, brother of wartime emperor Hirohito, as making the apology to former Chinese president Jiang Zemin at an imperial palace banquet in Tokyo. "My conscience pricks me even now. I would like to apologize to the Chinese people," Mikasa reportedly said...

Army Deserter Charles Jenkins Apologizes for Deserting Army for North Korea The Associated Press Published: Jun 21, 2005 WELDON, N.C. (AP) - On one of his final days in the United States, U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins apologized for his more than 40-year-old decision to abandon his post for life in North Korea. Jenkins reportedly was to leave his boyhood home of North Carolina as early as Tuesday morning for an afternoon flight from Dulles International Airport to Tokyo and then head to Japan island where he now lives. But his sister's house in Weldon, where he held a news...

Philadelphia public schools chief Paul Vallas and City Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson yesterday apologized for the decision that led to a 10-year-old girl who was caught with scissors in her book bag being handcuffed and taken to the local precinct in the back of a police wagon. "I'm not going to demonize a fourth grader who brings a scissors to school," Vallas said in a phone interview shortly after calling the child's mother, Rose Jackson, to apologize. "For heaven's sake, you don't need to call in the police on a case like that. I just think that's an overreaction." Johnson,...