Remembering The Attack on Pearl Harbor

On the recent anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan’s foreign minister, Michio Watanabe, asked the Washington Post for an opportunity to say something: “This is the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, and we feel a deep remorse about the unbearable suffering and sorrow Japan inflicted on the American people and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific during the Pacific war, a war that Japan started with the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan waged war against the United States because of the reckless decision of our military....We can’t get over our deep sorrow.” That statement was as close as the Japanese government would come to apologizing for Pearl Harbor. Plans for the Japanese Parliament to apologize collapsed after President George Bush said he saw no reason for America to apologize for Hiroshima. (U.S. News and World Report).