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09-12-11, 02:09
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According to CTV News tonight, there is not much to be said regarding this apology.
Veterans groups are unimpressed; the statement of apology was made behind closed doors by a low level diplomat instead of coming right from the Prime Minister to our Prime Minister. Funny how the Japanese are still reluctant after all these years. Veterans groups say that it would mean more if the Japanese people were actually told the truth once and for all; their wartime history is downplayed to the general populace.
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13-12-11, 00:23
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Let's face the facts. A low level diplomat behind closed doors issuing an apology. Hogwash.
As Chris has stated, it should have come from the Japanese PM to our PM. Nothing more, nothing less. Wonder how many Japanese have read " The Rape of Nanking " by Iris Chang?
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25-12-11, 06:34
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The Japanese have never at any time to my knowledge admitted to any wrongdoing or taken any responsibility for what they did except in the most limited way and only in muted tones.
It doesn't help matters that successive Australian governments have been only to happy to comply with the conspiracy of silence. At the same time the Hawke government made a million dollars available for the pursuit and prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Australia who did not carry out their crimes against Australians no mention is made of Japanese crimes such as Tol Plantation, Banka Beach or Sandakan where our people suffered atrocity. I've always found Canberra's fawning and kowtowing to Tokyo sickening. If interested in getting an insight into the way the Japanese military conducted themselves during WW2 I highly recommend reading 'One Fourteenth of an Elephant' by Ian Denys Peak. It's an extremely powerful first hand account written by a British POW captured at Singapore and was not published until 2003. It should be compulsory reading in Japanese schools. David
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