Japan Prime Minister Abe’s
August 15 statement
The 15 of August, 2015 marks the seventieth year since the
end of the Greater East Asian War, or War in the Pacific, World War Two. On this date Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is
expected to issue a statement further memorializing the end of the War. Some of Japan’s antagonists in Asia are
expecting if not demanding Mr. Abe include in his statement an apology for
their perceived transgressions committed by Imperial Japan during that war.
In an effort to placate these notable antagonists, the
people of Japan, and to move his nation forward, the Prime Minister has
assembled a panel of scholars and experts to construct a statement for
him. I would like to help Prime Minister
Abe, and contribute to this panel by offering the following as a suggested
statement for 15 August, 2015:
“Today August 15 marks seventy
years since the end of the Greater East Asian War. We in Japan, we have learned
valuable lessons from that war. Paramount
of those lessons is that in the last seventy years Japan has not engaged in any
combat. We have not lost any of our
precious sons and daughters in any wars throughout the world. For seventy years Japan has remained a
peaceful nation. I only wish that other
nations would have followed the same example that Japan has led in the last seventy
years. Because as we know many nations
involved in the Great East Asian War have continued or engaged in further
conflicts where they lost the lives of their precious sons and daughters. I look forward to the next seventy years
where Japan can continue to maintain its peaceful posture and I hope other
nations would follow our good example.
Thank you very much for your time.
Domo arigato gozaimasu.”
It is short, to the point, and looks forward. Plus there is the apology demanded by some
covertly in the statement. The part of
the statement “We in Japan, we have learned valuable lessons from that
war.” There is can be concluded exists
the apology. The apology is in the form
of “learned valuable lessons.” It also
can be interpreted as Japan learned the valuable lessons while other nations
failed to learn those very valuable lessons by engaging in continued
hostilities.
The statement announces Japan’s peaceful past, looking
forward to a peaceful future while urging others to follow the same
example. It also sends a clear message
asking how can a nation who engaged in hostilities in the last seventy year
even think to point a finger at Japan.
Japan in the last seventy years led by example sadly the
world chose to ignore. While at the same
time some nations remained anchored in the past insisting on an apology for
actions they themselves have engaged in since the end of that war. Japan thank you for your example and looking
forward.
The apology parade started with a Japanese Prime Minister
around 1995 and continued with subsequent Japanese Prime Ministers. Why?
Was not the first apology enough?
Have a parade of German chancellors apologized? How about the legion of Italian Prime
Minister’s for Italy’s role during World War Two in Libya and Ethiopia?
Have recent commie Chinese dictators apologized for Mao’s
murder of over thirty million of his own people? When did the president of South Korea
apologize for the massacres committed by South Korean troops against South
Koreans during the Korean War?
It is about time the British Prime Minister apologize for
his troops burning the American White House during the War of 1812? The spark that ignited the American Civil War
(1861 – 1865) was when the South fired upon Fort Sumter in April of 1861. Can we expect Southerners in the USA to
apologize?
Repeated apologies for the same event is useless and reduces
the impact of the first apology. Also
why is it Japan must continue to apologize when other nations only apologized
once for the past transgressions if they apologized at all?
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