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Actually, Japan has apologized repeatedly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wa

Actually, Japan has apologized repeatedly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements... However, Japan has more than its fair share of far-right fruitcakes who deny everything, and in both Korea and China politicians have found Japan to be a convenient whipping boy whenever they need a distraction from domestic problems.

inferiorhuman 7y ago
However, Japan has more than its fair share of far-right fruitcakes who deny everything They elected a far right "fruitcake" to the post of prime minister.
- T-R 7y ago
  To be fair, they only elected the conservative party, the LDP; the party elected the prime minister. Granted, they've elected the LDP almost continuously since 1955. Of course, they tried electing the other party in 2009, but their leadership kept resigning. Of course, given the LDP's stranglehold on politics, one has to wonder why they feel a need to pander to the nettouyo.
  - cattlefarmer 7y ago
    I stopped paying to attention to politics about 5 years ago and am very surprised to learn that the major opposition party (DPJ?) has essentially fractured into multiple, smaller parties, all using a variation of the same name. At this point, I'm not even sure who to vote for anymore.
jonathanyc 7y ago
The problem is that Japan has a history of doing things like this: > In October 2006, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's apology was followed on the same day by a group of 80 Japanese lawmakers' visit to the Yasukuni Shrine which enshrines more than 1,000 convicted war criminals.[57] Two years after the apology, Shinzo Abe also denied that the Imperial Japanese military had forced comfort women into sexual slavery during World War II . This is from your link.
sasaf5 7y ago
Japan demands the issue to be "settled" or "forgotten" after mulling quick apologies. Imagine Germany demanding that the Holocaust be forgotten.
- jpatokal 7y ago
  Japan and South Korea signed an agreement in 1965 that was supposed to settle all financial claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_betw...
  - sasaf5 7y ago
    This agreement is about property claims, not about war crimes against civilians.
    - jpatokal 7y ago
      The agreement is about "property and claims" between the two states. Of course, individuals can and have sued various Japanese entities, some successfully.
- rchaud 7y ago
  Germany's the exception, not the rule. Most countries's governments like nothing more than to behave as if their past transgressions never happened. And even then Germany has had no shortage of politicians who say "Germany has apologized enough".

inferiorhuman 7y ago

However, Japan has more than its fair share of far-right fruitcakes who deny everything They elected a far right "fruitcake" to the post of prime minister.

T-R 7y ago
To be fair, they only elected the conservative party, the LDP; the party elected the prime minister. Granted, they've elected the LDP almost continuously since 1955. Of course, they tried electing the other party in 2009, but their leadership kept resigning. Of course, given the LDP's stranglehold on politics, one has to wonder why they feel a need to pander to the nettouyo.
- cattlefarmer 7y ago
  I stopped paying to attention to politics about 5 years ago and am very surprised to learn that the major opposition party (DPJ?) has essentially fractured into multiple, smaller parties, all using a variation of the same name. At this point, I'm not even sure who to vote for anymore.

jonathanyc 7y ago

The problem is that Japan has a history of doing things like this: > In October 2006, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's apology was followed on the same day by a group of 80 Japanese lawmakers' visit to the Yasukuni Shrine which enshrines more than 1,000 convicted war criminals.[57] Two years after the apology, Shinzo Abe also denied that the Imperial Japanese military had forced comfort women into sexual slavery during World War II . This is from your link.

sasaf5 7y ago

Japan demands the issue to be "settled" or "forgotten" after mulling quick apologies. Imagine Germany demanding that the Holocaust be forgotten.

jpatokal 7y ago
Japan and South Korea signed an agreement in 1965 that was supposed to settle all financial claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_betw...
- sasaf5 7y ago
  This agreement is about property claims, not about war crimes against civilians.
  - jpatokal 7y ago
    The agreement is about "property and claims" between the two states. Of course, individuals can and have sued various Japanese entities, some successfully.
rchaud 7y ago
Germany's the exception, not the rule. Most countries's governments like nothing more than to behave as if their past transgressions never happened. And even then Germany has had no shortage of politicians who say "Germany has apologized enough".