Tuesday, July 31, 2007  Then perhaps he should stop trying to
deny the past  Tokyo - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday
expressed regret at a US resolution demanding an "unambiguous
apology" for Japan's use of sex slaves in World War II, saying
he hoped to look to the future instead. (Story from
www.iol.co.za here.)  Certain Japanese rightists keep bringing
up old WW2 issues (which the rest of the planet knows the facts
about) and try to deny or revise them. This is what causes the
controversy. Anyway, the resolution is mute. There is absolutely
no way that Japan under the LDP and rightwing elite will
"unambiguously" apologize for anything it did in WW2. Why should
they? They are the primary victims and besides, everyone else
has done bad things too. Never, ever, will there be such an
apology from the LDP. Ever. Even a vague one will be in effect
retracted later by the statements of some politician.  Anyway,
hopefully just a few Americans will be woken up a bit about what
Japan's view of its role in WW2 rea