Israel Forced To Apologise To Japan Over Offensive Hiroshima Comments

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7. Me too. Japan's government has not exactly been apologetic about the Invasion of China.

Which was considerably more morally repulsive than Pearl Harbor and the Japanese-American war in general. Japan's little escapade in China caused the deaths of over 20 MILLION CHINESE CIVILIANS, not to mention killing more than a million Chinese soldiers. I'd be inclined to view memorials to dead German citizens a lot more favorably, seeing as how much of the German public has long adopted an apologetic stance about Germany's belligerence. For instance, the only major German-constructed war memorial you'll find in Berlin is a Holocaust memorial. Japan, on the other hand, has the Yasukuni shrine (and museum!) in Tokyo, which commemorates all soldiers who died in WWII, even those pesky war criminals. Also, there's the recurring scandals where Japanese textbooks have been revised to make the Nanking Massacre sound more like an out-of-hand frat party than an enormous murder/gang-rape session, or play down Chinese casualties in general, or sing praises of Japan's pure intentions to create an Asian "Prosperity Sphere", or dismiss all those wacky medical experiments done on Chinese civilians and POWs.