Do Hiroshima Residents Even Want an Apology?
M. Oi - BBC News
... Even among those who experienced the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and lived through the hardship after the war, the majority are not asking for an apology. In a recent survey of survivors by Kyodo news agency, 78.3 percent said they saw no need for a US apology, especially if demanding one would prevent the president from coming. The Japanese public appears more concerned with current issues ... Then of course there is the simmering debate over whether modern Japan should have to apologise for its own atrocities committed during World War Two, as is often demanded by its neighbours. Journalist Nobuo Ikeda says Mr Obama shouldn't have to apologise "because he wasn't even born then and wasn't responsible".
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