World War Two for the day

Per Liljas has a Time article about Japan:

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (photo, at right) will express remorse for his country’s role in World War Two in a statement on the seventieth anniversary of his nation’s surrender in August of 2015.
“I would like to write of Japan’s remorse over the war, its postwar history as a pacifist nation and how it will contribute to the Asia-Pacific region and the world,” Abe said at a recent press conference, reported the Kyodo news agency.
Japan’s relations with South Korea and China have long been deeply impacted by the country’s attitude toward its wartime actions. The East Asian neighbors will pay particularly close attention to whether Abe will uphold his predecessor Tomiichi Murayama’s 1995 apology for the “tremendous damage and suffering” Japan caused to people across Asia during the Pacific war.
Asked about Murayama’s statement, Abe said that he “has and will uphold statements issued by past administrations.”

Rico says that seventy years is nothing; the eta are still waiting for their apology, and that's been hundreds of years. (Hell, we're still waiting for an apology for Pearl Harbor...)