Japan says sorry for bombing Darwin

Little Jo · #1 13-01-12, 12:48

Hi All

It took them long enough to say sorry, only 70 years. Well I hope the Japanese government will now update their history books in schools and teach the current and future generation of children what their government and military really did thoughout the pacific and China during WWII.

LEST WE FORGET.

Tony

maple_leaf_eh · #2 13-01-12, 16:29

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Originally Posted by Little Jo

Hi All

It took them long enough to say sorry, only 70 years. Well I hope the Japanese government will now update their history books in schools and teach the current and future generation of children what their government and military really did thoughout the pacific and China during WWII.

LEST WE FORGET.

Tony

Last December, the Japanese apologized for the treatment of Canadian prisoners taken in the fall of Hong Kong in 1941. Part of the Royal Rifles of Canada was recruited from my old neighbourhood, and a significant proportion of officers and men from a predecessor of my old reserve unit rebadged to go to Asia. I think a dozen slave labour camp survivors are left. Two generations too late, but at least they are coming around.