Unkotare
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No speech given and this
Initial plans for Emperor Akihito's two-week tour of the United States had included a stop at the Arizona memorial, an arching white structure built atop the ship's remains that seems to float above the harbor itself. But objections from Japan's nationalist right wing, which has long argued that the attack was a justifiable response to an American war embargo, made the government shy away from that hugely symbolic site.
I'm not pissed or anything about the speech, just think it was unnecessary and contributes to the belief that the US is what's wrong with the world..
"...the Emperor of Japan today laid a wreath at a monument for war dead at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
The somber and sparsely attended gesture of sorrow for the losses incurred in war was an oblique gesture to the 2,395 servicemen killed the day Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor just after dawn on Dec. 7, 1941."