To Koreans and Chinese whom it may concern,

Let me explain how Japan seems to have justified what it did during the war. It's because it has begun to distinguish between wrong and non-wrong things that it conducted during the wars from 1900 to 1945. We began to do that because we don't want to commit wrong things again. In order not to do that, we need to know the exact reasons. In another expression, the awareness of the reasons would not lead our children to make the same mistake our grandfathers made before. Therefore, some of us began to distinguish between them and trace the causes of the wrong deeds only. More important, the war should be seen as it was; otherwise, we will not be able to know the true causes.

But we don't think Japan was right in invading your countries. We agree with you that, whatever reason, Japan should not have followed the imeperialistic policy even if it was adopted by several Powers, against which Japan was fighting except you two. But Japan found no other way but to follow that. Therefore, the government has apologized for that, and many of us don't think the government should withdraw the apologies it has expressed to you.

In short, Japan has done two different things at once recently. It has apologized for what it did against you during the war, and tried to find the true reasons why it committed the wrond deeds because we don't want our children to reap the causes when they grow. This might be fullfilled when the war is seen as it was. And some of the Japanese deeds have been found that do not seem to be so wrong. But again, we're not going to justify what our grandfathers did against you. In other words, apologies cannot be enough to show our determination of not making the same mistakes.