Don't get me wrong. I am aware that warfare is cruel.
1) War crimes have been commited by almost all countries in one time or another. However, it is the scale of what the Japanese did which stands out.
They killed 15 million people in Asia.
2) Sure, Stalin killed more. Stalin purged the communist party to get rid of his enemies but this spread and he caused the death of about 20 million Russians.
3) Americans, put Japanese into war camps during WW2. But @R Havell, they were kept as prisoners. They were not systematically raped and then killed.
4) There are not many Japanese around that are responsible for these crimes, and an apology will not bring back dead people.
I haven't heard the Serbs apologize for what they did in Bosnia or Kosovo.
But what I find hard to accept, and also find the Japanese living today responsible for, is that they are saying these things never happened.
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