Annan urges Japan to express remorse
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Annan urges Japan to express remorse to China, S. Korea
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday that Japan could warm its soured relationships with China and South Korea if it expressed remorse and regret for its acts during World War II, following the example of Germany.
Japan's relations with the two countries should be improved, Annan said in a meeting with Takenori Kanzaki, leader of Komeito, at a hotel in Tokyo.
The leader of Komeito, the junior coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, responded that he will make efforts to improve relations with the two countries.
Japan's relations with China and South Korea have been strained primarily by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's controversial visits to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors Class-A war criminals of along with the war dead. (Jiji Press)
May 17, 2006
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haizz, smtimes i wonder whether the UN is still relevant in todays world, or is it just me...
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Might is right...the lesson the US is teaching the world is: if you can point a couple of nuclear missiles at them, they will dance to your tune.
Express remorse? Hell, you can effect regime change and try their leaders for war crimes they great grandfathers committed if you are strong enough
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forget about getting an apology from japan.
if they wanted to they would have done it a long time ago.
what china should do now is to beat the japanese economically.