Japanese Apologies for World War II

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For countries just as people, saying ‘sorry’ for past bad behavior is not easy. Statements of regret are considerably harder to make when the occasions they allude to happened in the far past and time has blurred or eradicated human memory. Countries and their political delegates are in the matter of supporting government actions and looking to the past for motivation and character. They do not want to concede blunders of judgment, not to mention appalling maltreatment of human rights. So for what reason do countries choose to apologize for quite a while in the past bad behavior? What apology expected to achieve? Why the interest of verbal acknowledgment and lament? What makes a “fruitful” conciliatory sentiment? After the war, Japan offers a convincing contextual investigation of national expressions of remorse historical wrongs. Activities of the Japanese armed force and government during World War II caused tremendous misery and trouble all through Asia, leaving the inheritance of disdain and doubt.