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The second issue is that of a specific apology to the “comfort women” – from many countries, including my own, but especially South Korea – who were sexually enslaved in army brothels.
Likewise, China may have set the bar too high concerning the language that it has demanded in any general apology.
The benchmark 1995 Murayama apology remains a personal one, because the Japanese Diet, then and since, would not agree to anything as strong: a “deep feeling of remorse” was as much as they could muster, and even then 241 members abstained.
A century later, another American president, Barack Obama, immersed in two hopeless wars in the Middle East, received his Nobel Peace Prize with an apology for “just wars.”
So they often start presentations with an apology, use girlish inflections, and end statements with question marks.
More recklessly, after securing the release of the trawler, China demanded an apology from Japan.
Having already been humiliated by China, such an apology would be politically suicidal for the Japanese government.
In fact, China should hope that no such apology is forthcoming.
Turkey put forward three conditions: a formal apology, reparations for the families of those killed, and the lifting of the siege of Gaza.
Israel offered “regrets,” rather than a formal apology, and agreed to pay reparations, but refused to lift the Gaza siege.
The apology comes with an agreement to pay compensation to the families and a promise to lift the blockade of Gaza for civilian goods.
Israel’s apology delivers an important measure of justice in the Mavi Marmara case, and has the potential to open a new chapter in Turkish-Israeli relations, which could create new opportunities for the Middle East peace process.
But the apology is just the start.
No apology will bring back the victims.
US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and their team played a crucial role in brokering the apology, for which they deserve credit.
During his election campaign, Abe, a self-declared nationalist, expressed a desire to revise Japan’s 1995 apology for its occupation and war record.
The virtue of their “party” or clique needs no complex justification: it stands for “American values,” while critics merely provide an “objective apology” for the “enemies of freedom.”
To contain the damage and begin to rebuild much-needed trust, Obama must issue a credible apology to Merkel, other Western allies, and their citizens.
In the American political context, issuing an apology, especially to foreign governments, is often viewed as a sign of weakness.
In the case of the NSA scandal, an unequivocal apology by Obama is the only viable solution to leave the past behind and move forward.
In 2005, during the cartoons crisis, some commentators and politicians in the Muslim world claimed that the right to free speech had been abused and called for an apology and a condemnation of the cartoons, first from Jyllands-Posten, then from my government.
As the Volkswagen crisis so vividly illustrates, we need more than corporate apology and regulatory wrist slapping.
Yet his public confession and apology are unlikely to end the matter.
Fifty years after WWII, it remains incapable of an unequivocal recognition of an apology for Japan's war crimes.
Chou came under fire in China after posing for a picture while holding the Taiwanese flag, and her public apology for doing so – made on YouTube – reminded many on the island of the degree to which China is willing to pressure people into silence.
Japan has repeatedly expressed the feelings of deep remorse and heartfelt apology for its actions during the war.
If they had realized that, they would not have published the cartoons – as they stated clearly when they made their apology.
Romer even offered “a personal apology to Chile, and to any other country where we conveyed the wrong impression.”
The leader, Gaurav Tiwari, demanded an apology from Netflix and the removal of “objectionable scenes” that he alleged were also “encouraging love jihad.”
Millions have taken to social media to express their grief, and to demand an apology from the Chinese government and freedom of expression.
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