{"id":3688,"date":"2015-04-30T21:07:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T21:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2015-04-30T21:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T21:07:30","slug":"bataan-legacy-historical-societys-response-to-japanese-prime-minister-shinzo-abes-speech-during-joint-meeting-of-u-s-congress-on-april-29-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"Bataan Legacy Historical Society\u2019s Response to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s Speech during Joint Meeting of U.S. Congress on April 29, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Prime Minister Abe apologized to the American POW\u2019s in Bataan, Corregidor and other parts of Asia during World War II.\u00a0\u00a0<!--more--> What about the Filipino soldiers who made up 7\/8 of the main line of resistance in Bataan?\u00a0 What about other Asians (Chinese, Koreans, Indonesians, Vietnamese, etc.) who bore the brunt of World War II in the Pacific?\u00a0 Are their lives not as valuable as their American brothers in war?\u00a0 What about the thousands of women forced into sexual enslavement?\u00a0 What about the thousands of civilians who were systematically exterminated by the Imperial Japanese Army?\u00a0 If Germany was able to acknowledge and atone for its systematic extermination of Jews during WWII through education, then Japan has the moral obligation to do the same to its victims in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Abe missed a golden opportunity to set the record straight and acknowledge his country\u2019s dark deeds during World War II.\u00a0\u00a0 It is only through acknowledgement of one\u2019s sins can atonement begin.\u00a0 It is only through education can we ensure that these heinous deeds against humanity will never happen again.\u00a0aching.<\/p>\n<p>Cecilia I. Gaerlan<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director<\/p>\n<p>Bataan Legacy Historical Society<\/p>\n<p>(510) 520-8540<\/p>\n<p>www.bataanlegacy.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Prime Minister Abe apologized to the American POW\u2019s in Bataan, Corregidor and other parts of Asia during World War II.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}