Abe came to power with the view that Japan really did not commit all the crimes and terror upon other peoples in Asia, and that no apologies are needed, in effect, refuting Murayama’s statement that Japan must accept it’s responsibility and move forward with the rest of the world.Today, like Holocaust deniers, and southern American die-hards who insist that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, many in Japan want to rewrite their more recent history, and expunge the crimes of the Tojo regime. .http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/press/pm/murayama/9508.html
Abe came to power with the view that Japan really did not commit all the crimes and terror upon other peoples in Asia, and that no apologies are needed, in effect, refuting Murayama’s statement that Japan must accept it’s responsibility and move forward with the rest of the world.Today, like Holocaust deniers, and southern American die-hards who insist that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, many in Japan want to rewrite their more recent history, and expunge the crimes of the Tojo regime. .http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/press/pm/murayama/9508.html