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Most Japanese think Tokyo has apologised enough for war wrongs
TOKYO (AFP) - Almost two-thirds of Japanese believe their leaders have apologised enough to China and South Korea for the nation's past military aggression, according to a new poll.
Some 63 percent of respondents said that Japan's repeated apologies were enough, against 27 percent who said they were still insufficient, according to a poll of 1,796 adults for the mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun.
The survey was taken on October 15-16. Anti-Japan rallies in China in April are believed to have had some impact on Japanese feelings toward the Chinese, the conservative daily said.
Respondents were sharply split on the question of whether they should continue to feel responsibility for the atrocities Japan inflicted on Asian peoples.
Forty-five percent said they believed they no longer had to feel sorry while a combined 47 percent said they should remain mindful of the responsibility for past wrongdoings forever or for a certain period of time.
Japan's relations with China and South Korea plunged to new lows after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's latest visit on October 17 to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine, seen by critics as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.
Koizumi's annual visits to the Shinto shrine, which honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead including convicted war criminals, have outraged China and South Korea, which Japan occupied in the early 20th century.
Asked to choose the most desirable place to mourn the dead, 42 percent picked the Yasukuni shrine, followed by 33 percent who opted for building a new national memorial.
Seventeen percent said they would favour Yasukuni if top war criminals enshrined there were separated. |
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