Petitie #218: learning from the past

Petitie #218: learning from the past

Excellency,

The Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts notes your election victory and your appointment as Japan’s Prime Minister for the second time. In October 2006 our petition 143 welcomed you as Prime Minister of Japan the first time and congratulated you with the position. You announced then in your inaugural speech your intentions to change the constitution, to strengthen ties with China and South Korea and modernize Japan’s educational system. We suggested that was an opportune moment to learn from the past and reconsider the damage done by previous Japanese governments to Japan’s war victims both at home as well as in the previously occupied territories. (meer…)