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Japanese PM to Visit Pearl Harbour

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发表于 2016-12-8 03:51:46 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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On surface, what a noble gesture.  In reality, Abe wanted more military hardware from USA until such time Japan can build its own.

Ah, one might ask, when will ANY Japanese PM visit Nanjing to pay tribute to the Rape of Nanjing, then to Beijing and to apologise for the atrocities committed during the war?

If Obama is a Statesman, (unfortunately he is not, he is only an ignorant politician who only thinks of a legacy which Trump will shred to pieces upon taking office) he should urge Abe to do what I raised in the previous paragraph which is the only way to admit Japan's guilt and to start a new Sino-Japanese relationship for the 21st century!
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发表于 2016-12-8 04:41:15 | 显示全部楼层
Notice on Chinese TV news saying Abe is NOT apologizing to USA about Pearl Harbor.
They used another word to describe the event.  something to do with understanding or acknowledging.
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发表于 2016-12-8 04:44:23 | 显示全部楼层
Found the word,   RECONCILE

See below from Voice of America:

Japan says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not apologize for his country’s 1941 attack on United States forces when he visits Pearl Harbor, Hawaii later this month.

Wednesday marks the 75th anniversary of the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.

Japanese warplanes dropped bombs that sunk the battleship USS Arizona. They also damaged or destroyed 20 other ships and 164 planes. More than 2,300 Americans were killed.

The attack led to the American entry into World War II. The day after the attack, Congress declared war on Japan.

The war ended after the U.S. military dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two attacks killed more than 210,000 people. Six months ago, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to visit a memorial to the bombing in Hiroshima while still in office.

Tuesday, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said the prime minister will visit Pearl Harbor on December 26th and 27th. He said Abe’s visit is designed “to show his commitment towards the future and to never repeat the tragedy of the World War, as well as to send a message of reconciliation between the U.S. and Japan."

Abe’s visit will be the first by a Japanese leader since the attack.

Matthew Linley is a professor in the Department of International Programs at Nagoya University. He said that Abe and his supporters consider the visit a sign that the two countries now have strong relations.

“This is also seen within Japan as -- especially for Abe and his supporters -- as being kind of a final conclusion of the post-war period. For Japan, the post-war period, many of them feel that relations now are completely normalized between the two countries. And that, even though it was of course controversial for President Obama to visit Hiroshima and controversial for Prime Minister Abe to visit Pearl Harbor, I think especially within Japan there’s a lot of support for Prime Minister Abe to make this visit.

"But the main point that the media seems to be making is that this is a good move, but it’s tied to a number of, of different things. One thing is of course the Donald Trump incoming presidency -- Japan really wants to create a good relationship with Donald Trump because Japan is very worried about China and the South China Sea and North Korea’s missile program. Because Trump made some critical comments of Japan and the US-Japan alliance during the campaign, Japan is very concerned about trying to create good relation(s) with the United States and all eyes I think are on the Trump administration coming forward.”

Linley noted that Abe was the first foreign leader to meet with Trump. The two spoke in New York last month.

During the campaign, Trump criticized Japan and other nations where the U.S. military has troops. He said they should be paying more for the security the troops provide.

Grant Newsham is a senior research fellow at the Japan Forum on Strategic Studies. Newsham says “Trump’s statements while he was a candidate suggesting that Japan was not doing enough for its defense and not paying enough for the services of U.S. forces really frightened the Japanese government.”

“Since Mr. Trump has been elected -- to the Japanese population and the Japanese government’s great surprise -- the Japanese government has really been scrambling to try and build some sort of relationship with Mr. Trump. They didn’t think he would win.”

This week, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced plans to return to the Japanese government almost 4,000 hectares of land in Okinawa used for military training.

I’m Christopher Jones-Cruise.

VOA Reporters Chris Hannas, Victor Beattie and Jeff Custer reported this story from Washington. Christopher Jones-Cruise adapted their reports for Learning English. George Grow was the editor.

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Words in This Story

reconciliation – n. the act of causing two people or groups to become friendly again after an argument or disagreement

commemorate – v. to do something special in order to remember and honor (an important event or person from the past)

atrocity – n. a very cruel or terrible act or action
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 楼主| 发表于 2016-12-8 05:36:47 | 显示全部楼层
babyme 发表于 2016-12-8 04:41
Notice on Chinese TV news saying Abe is NOT apologizing to USA about Pearl Harbor.
They used another ...

I never said Abe would apologize, I used the word "gesture".
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 楼主| 发表于 2016-12-8 08:38:11 | 显示全部楼层
Japan's attacked on Pearl Harbour which is a navel base, caused 2,300+ navy lives and the sinking of almost the entire US Pacific Fleet.  Subsequently, US dropped 2 A-bomb on Japan which Japan fully deserved.

So, let us say it was "an eye for an eye,a tooth for a tooth", and the score was even, in US favour.

The brutality and casualties inflicted on China was beyond comparison, easily 40 million Chinese dead - mostly civilians, and 400 million people dislodged.  China did not ask for a single cent of compensation while all S.E. Asian countries suffered through Japanese occupation all received compensation.

Therefore, Japan must offer formal apology plus stop paying annual respect/visit to its National Shrine which housed several notorious war criminals who were responsible for the crimes committed in China.

I will search, dig up, then post a video for your review re a former German Chancellor's action when he visited a former Nazi death camp in Poland.

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 楼主| 发表于 2016-12-8 08:56:25 | 显示全部楼层
Here you are, compare this with Japan's post-war actions.  That's is why I feel without a sincere apology and remorse, there can NEVER be a normal Sino-Japanese relationship :

A Kneeling Chancellor of Germany Puts Japan and Japanese In Great Shames:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ft6ueMkE04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vHV-ft-08c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiWPX9k4QQY

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发表于 2016-12-13 06:28:02 | 显示全部楼层

Now Pearl Harbor, When Nanjing Shinzō Abe

Pearl Harbor did not get an apology, a reconciliation ,  How about Nanjing  ?????  You Shinzō Abe

Nanjing Rape was December 13.

Nanking Massacre (Rape of Nanking)
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War of World War II
Nanking bodies 1937.jpg
The corpses of massacred victims on the shore of the Qinhuai River with a Japanese soldier standing nearby
Date         December 13, 1937 – January 1938
Location         Nanjing, China
Result        

    50,000–300,000 dead (primary sources)[1][2]
    40,000–300,000 dead (scholarly consensus)[3]
    300,000 dead (Chinese government, scholarly consensus in China)[4][5][6]

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发表于 2016-12-13 06:30:30 | 显示全部楼层
Funny thing is

Pearl Harbor  is Military target.  They have fighting power, just NOT prepared.

Nanjing is all CIVILIAN, no arms.
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发表于 2016-12-14 07:43:21 | 显示全部楼层
America does not want Sino-Japanese relationships to improve. It wants to use Japan to contain China.
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发表于 2016-12-14 14:04:43 | 显示全部楼层
puffy 发表于 2016-12-14 07:43
America does not want Sino-Japanese relationships to improve. It wants to use Japan to contain China ...

And Taiwan to contain China too, with 2 china policy.
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