I wonder, dear consumers of Japanese media, was this bit of history being made (uncovered by an Our Man field agent) reported anyplace? The smart money says not.
But, money talks. And this seems to be what's driving the Japanese Government to finally start saying sorry for the war, and really mean it.
Wouldn't it be nice if that was reported here, in Japan?
As you were.
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Eh, "historic" isn't the sort of term I'd apply to a visit along these lines. That part of the visit (which got plenty of press for the more important "lined up some rare earths for Japanese manufacturers, in your face China" aspect) did get covered on the MOFA website, for what that's worth.
Not sure if this was the first time for a foreign minister to visit the memorial, but prime ministers have, including 53 years ago and Koizumi in 2002. That probably takes some of the newsworthiness out of this month's visit.
Yep, Japanese big wigs have been in the chapel, but never the statue of the good Doc. And, they've never said sorry to Australian POWs.
Maybe this is not news for folk who care more about their mining contracts than justice, but guess Our Man's old fashioned.
Mofa website. Aha, Well, they probably get more hits than Our Man, so that's nice.
At least the MOFA site coverage shows it isn't the gummint covering it up, but the press deciding it isn't newsworthy, or worth inviting angry guys in trucks to drive around shouting at them for giving aid and comfort to people who were the enemy four generations ago, or something. I dunno.
Anyway the MOFA site is a usability swamp so to tell you the truth I'm just glad I was able to find anything there at all once I set out searching for it. If someone sent a copy of all the public HTML files there to WikiLeaks, maybe we'd get an army of bloggers to whip the info into neatly collated shape.
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