Colin Watkin comments

Its is a sad situation. My father was posted after WWII with the newly formed UN to repatriate a lot of soldiers who could not get back home without help. His dying wish which he fulfilled was to go to Japan and make friends with a Japanese man his age as he said both sides did as they were told by respective governments. Just exactly how many more times does Japan has to apologize? Since the war the country has made an all out effort to be a peaceful nation. far more peaceful than America that's for sure. It all seems so one sided anyway as everybody seems to have forgotten two A Bombs! I don't see many apologies about that and I don't see Japanese people asking for apologies either.

I am a Japanese resident and as my father said, 'Even from wars come good things. Because of what we all did is the reason you are in Japan today"