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Abe should heed plea for remorse
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On July 13, famed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki invited reporters to his studio to denounce Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plans to allow the Japanese Self-Defense Force to play a greater military role overseas. Miyazaki also urged the country to make a clear apology for Japan’s role in World War II.
“(Japan) has to say clearly that aggressive war was completely wrong, having brought enormous damage to the Chinese people ... Older people can’t forget that,” the animator was quoted as saying. “For them, the pacifist constitution was like a ray of light.”
In his 2006 book, Toward a Beautiful Nation, Abe said that Class A war criminals adjudicated in the Tokyo Tribunal were not war criminals in the eye of domestic law.
He has spared no effort to change Japan’s pacific constitution to allow broader use of Japan’s military.
Miyazaki’s remarks deserves respects from all people who love peace and can’t forget history, especially people in Asia who suffered from Japanese aggression.
The writer is an associate professor in the culture and communications department and a research fellow with the Sino-Denmark joint research center on China and International Relations, University of International Relations. Johnliu1963@yahoo.com.
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