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<text id=91TT2771>
<title>
Dec. 16, 1991: World Notes:Japan
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 16, 1991 The Smile of Freedom
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 53
World Notes
JAPAN
No Apology Necessary
</hdr><body>
<p> The immense wave of attention the U.S. has been devoting to
the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor has made Japan
nervous. Using language more specific than usual, Foreign
Minister Michio Watanabe told the Washington Post, "We feel a
deep remorse about the unbearable suffering and sorrow Japan
inflicted on the American people and the peoples of Asia."
</p>
<p> The surprise attack and the war in the Pacific, he added,
resulted from "the reckless decision of our military." It was
a particularly direct statement that went beyond the usual bland
formula used by Japanese officials.
</p>
<p> Watanabe said his country is not seeking "any kind of
apology" from the U.S. for dropping atom bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. But his views were not shared by conservatives in his
own ruling party. They blocked a resolution in the Diet that
would have apologized for the war because they were offended by
President Bush's statement that the U.S. has no reason to
apologize for using the bombs.
</p>
</body></article>
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