Tokyo: Japan marked the 76th anniversary of World War II surrendered on Sunday with a gloomy ceremony where Prime Minister Yosihide Suga promised to tragedy the war to never be repeated but avoid apologizing for the country’s past aggression.
Suga said Japan had never forgotten the peace enjoyed by the country currently built on the sacrifices of those who died in the war.
“We will be committed to our promise to never repeat the tragedy of the war,” he said in his first speech at the event since he became Prime Minister.
Suga did not offer an apology to the victims of Japanese aggression throughout the region in the region in the region The first half of the 20th century – the precedence was determined by its predecessor Shinzo Abe, who was often accused of trying to glide through the brutal past of his country.
In a speech mostly focused on domestic, Suga recorded damage to Japan and its people, including the US, including the US The US, including the US atomic attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Firebombing Tokyo and other cities and fierce battles of Okinawa, and grieved for them.
Emperor Naruhito, on the contrary, revealed “ depth regret “for the action of his country’s war well.
Following in the footsteps his father, who devoted his 30-year career to make improvements for the fighting war or s name Hirohito, grandfather of the emperor at this time.
Naruhito also said that people can put their HEA.
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In the midst of Coronavirus infection that jumped Tokyo, about 200 participants, reduced from around 6,000 before the pandemic, grieving for the dead with one minute of silence.
Masks are needed, and no national song song.
Suga vowed to cooperate with the international community in overcoming global problems under the ‘Proactive Pacifism,’ ‘Vision that was promoted ABE to enable Japan to play a larger military role in international conflicts.
In early 2013, Abe stopped acknowledging the hostility of the Japanese war or apologized in the August 15 speech, canceling a tradition of nearly 20 years which began with the 1995 apology from the socialist leader Tomiichi Murayama.
On Sunday, before attending the ceremony at Budokan Hall Tokyo, Suga put flowers in the nearest national grave for an unknown army.
While Suga moved away from the controversial Yasukuni Temple, he did send religious deals to the temple, report Japanese media.
The victims of the Japanese actions during the first half of the 20th century, especially Korea and China, saw the temple as a symbol of Japanese militarism for honoring war criminals punished among around 2.5 million wars.
Abe, who resigned as prime minister last year, prayed on the temple week, and so was three other Suga cabinet members.
Two other ministers visited the Friday temple.
The visit triggers criticism from China and South Korea.
On Sunday, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement stated “ deep disappointment and regretting the visit and offerings of Japanese leaders to the temple, saying it “ beautify the past Japanese war that aggression “and war criminals’ war.
“It urges them to show` `regret sincerely through actions’ so that countries can develop` bikes that are oriented in the future.
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Japan marked the 76th anniversary of the defeat of World War II
