Japanese Prime Minister visits Pearl Harbor, no apology expected

[Divine Wind]

Fair enough, but I hope all Japanese people understand why the United States shouldn't apologize for Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Obama, Abe to visit Pearl Harbor together; first official Japanese visit
More than 75 years later, remembrance and reconciliation are the themes as the Japanese prime minister visits Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, the first formal trip by a Japanese leader to the site where the world changed forever.

Both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Obama will speak at the commemoration of the 1941 Japanese air attack that drew the United States into the Second World War. Abe landed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the historic visit on Monday....

......Obama and Abe plan to make remarks at the memorial built atop the bombed-out hull of the USS Arizona, which sank to the bottom of the harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

The attack, on what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy," killed more than 2,400 Americans.

Abe is not expected apologize for the Pearl Harbor attack but is likely to express sympathy for the victims.

 

[yiostheoy]

Both Hirohito and Tojo already apologized.

Hirohito did when he first met with MacArthur and Tojo just before he was hanged.

So why does the current PM need to again?

 

[Harry Dresden]

Fair enough, but I hope all Japanese people understand why the United States shouldn't apologize for Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Obama, Abe to visit Pearl Harbor together; first official Japanese visit
More than 75 years later, remembrance and reconciliation are the themes as the Japanese prime minister visits Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, the first formal trip by a Japanese leader to the site where the world changed forever.

Both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Obama will speak at the commemoration of the 1941 Japanese air attack that drew the United States into the Second World War. Abe landed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the historic visit on Monday....

......Obama and Abe plan to make remarks at the memorial built atop the bombed-out hull of the USS Arizona, which sank to the bottom of the harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

The attack, on what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy," killed more than 2,400 Americans.

Abe is not expected apologize for the Pearl Harbor attack but is likely to express sympathy for the victims.

why should he apologize,the guy wasnt even born at that time....its like the people of today are supposed to apologize for things that happened before our time,like we were responsible for those things....you can only say you feel regret at what happened then......but apologies? ....i dont think so....but thats my take....

 

[TNHarley]

Nobody should apologize. Its over and we are fine. Living in the past solves nothing.

 

[miketx]

Let's just hope the get all the aircraft off the tarmac and the ships out to sea, before the Japs arrive.

 

[mudwhistle]

Both Hirohito and Tojo already apologized.

Hirohito did when he first met with MacArthur and Tojo just before he was hanged.

So why does the current PM need to again?

WHY DO WE HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR SLAVERY!!!!

 

[miketx]

Both Hirohito and Tojo already apologized.

Hirohito did when he first met with MacArthur and Tojo just before he was hanged.

So why does the current PM need to again?

WHY DO WE HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR SLAVERY!!!!

Because these are just low life Japs that have never accomplished anything.

 

[esthermoon]

Fair enough, but I hope all Japanese people understand why the United States shouldn't apologize for Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Obama, Abe to visit Pearl Harbor together; first official Japanese visit
More than 75 years later, remembrance and reconciliation are the themes as the Japanese prime minister visits Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, the first formal trip by a Japanese leader to the site where the world changed forever.

Both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Obama will speak at the commemoration of the 1941 Japanese air attack that drew the United States into the Second World War. Abe landed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the historic visit on Monday....

......Obama and Abe plan to make remarks at the memorial built atop the bombed-out hull of the USS Arizona, which sank to the bottom of the harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

The attack, on what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy," killed more than 2,400 Americans.

Abe is not expected apologize for the Pearl Harbor attack but is likely to express sympathy for the victims.

why should he apologize,the guy wasnt even born at that time....its like the people of today are supposed to apologize for things that happened before our time,like we were responsible for those things....you can only say you feel regret at what happened then......but apologies? ....i dont think so....but thats my take....

I agree with you Harry Dresden! The past is the past and nobody is guilty for something happened before his birth

 

[mudwhistle]

Japan should be apologizing for the many wrongs they committed leading up to WWII.

The corpses of massacred victims on the shore of the Qinhuai River with a Japanese soldier standing nearby

Nanking Massacre - Wikipedia
The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (then spelled Nanking), then the capital of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The massacre occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000,[7][8] and perpetrated widespread rape and looting.[9][10]

Since most Japanese military records on the killings were kept secret or destroyed shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945, historians have not been able to accurately estimate the death toll of the massacre. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo estimated in 1946 that over 200,000 Chinese were killed in the incident.[11] China's official estimate is more than 300,000 dead based on the evaluation of the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal in 1947. The death toll has been actively contested among scholars since the 1980s.[3][12]

The event remains a contentious political issue, as aspects of it have been disputed by historical negationists and Japanese nationalists,[8] who assert that the massacre has been either exaggerated or fabricated for propaganda purposes.[13][14][15] The controversy surrounding the massacre remains a stumbling block in Sino-Japanese relations and in Japanese relations with other Asia-Pacific nations, such as South Korea and the Philippines.[16]

Although the Japanese government has admitted to the killing of a large number of non-combatants, looting, and other violence committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of Nanking,[17][18] and Japanese veterans who served there have confirmed that a massacre took place, a small but vocal minority within both the Japanese government and society have argued that the death toll was military in nature and that no such crimes ever occurred. Denial of the massacre and revisionist accounts of the killings have become a staple of Japanese nationalism.[19] In Japan, public opinion of the massacres varies, but few deny outright that the conflict occurred.[19]

The event is also known as the Rape of Nanking or, using current official Pinyin romanization, the Nanjing Massacre or Rape of Nanjing.

 

[PredFan]

It will be 0bama who does the apologizing. I'm sure he thinks that we did something to provoke them.

 

[Divine Wind]

Both Hirohito and Tojo already apologized.

Hirohito did when he first met with MacArthur and Tojo just before he was hanged.

So why does the current PM need to again?

He doesn't. Why are you asking the question?

 

[Divine Wind]

Fair enough, but I hope all Japanese people understand why the United States shouldn't apologize for Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Obama, Abe to visit Pearl Harbor together; first official Japanese visit
More than 75 years later, remembrance and reconciliation are the themes as the Japanese prime minister visits Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, the first formal trip by a Japanese leader to the site where the world changed forever.

Both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Obama will speak at the commemoration of the 1941 Japanese air attack that drew the United States into the Second World War. Abe landed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the historic visit on Monday....

......Obama and Abe plan to make remarks at the memorial built atop the bombed-out hull of the USS Arizona, which sank to the bottom of the harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

The attack, on what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy," killed more than 2,400 Americans.

Abe is not expected apologize for the Pearl Harbor attack but is likely to express sympathy for the victims.

why should he apologize,the guy wasnt even born at that time....its like the people of today are supposed to apologize for things that happened before our time,like we were responsible for those things....you can only say you feel regret at what happened then......but apologies? ....i dont think so....but thats my take....

I agree with you Harry Dresden! The past is the past and nobody is guilty for something happened before his birth

Agreed. Including Hiroshima and Nagasaki....not to mention firebombing Tokyo.