US President Joe Biden speaks after a tour of the Pfizer vaccine manufacturing site in Portage, Michigan on the 19th. Portage = AP Newsis
There is no’time limit’ for liquidating the past. Recently, the United States apologized for forced expropriation of Japanese Americans 79 years ago. A 95-year-old Nazi assistant worker was also found and expelled. Germany also recently set up Nazi camp officials on the bench of law. It is the opposite of Japan, which consistently ignores the history of abuse.
According to Japan’s Kyodo News on the 21st, US President Joe Biden issued a statement on the 19th (local time) on the 19th (local time) on the 79th anniversary of the signing of the Presidential Decree, which was the basis for compulsory expropriation of Japanese Americans during the past Pacific War. We reaffirm the official federal government’s apology.” The United States regarded Japanese-Americans as’appropriate foreigners’ on February 19, 1942 through an executive order of President Franklin Roosevelt, and forced 120,000 people into prison for several years. “It was the most shameful time in American history,” said President Biden. “This has led to deep-rooted racism, xenophobia, and the exclusion of immigrants.”
After the Pacific War, victims campaigned to restore honor, leading to the enactment of the Civil Freedom Act (Compulsory Compensation Act) during the Ronald Reagan administration in 1988. President Biden reaffirmed the Reagan administration’s official apology and bowed his head, saying, “The policy of compulsion was immoral and unconstitutional.” In the United States, February 19th is designated as the’Day of Remembrance’ and a commemorative event is held every year at the Washington Smithsonian Museum.
Friedrich Karl Berger, who admitted to serving as a security guard in a Nazi camp, was deported from the United States, where he had lived for over 60 years, and returned to Germany. Reuters Yonhap News
The condemnation of the Nazi assistant workers is also ongoing. On that day, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) announced that it had deported a man who had worked as a security guard at a Nazi camp in Germany in 1945 to Germany. Since 1959, he has lived in the United States for more than 60 years, and he has not been elected even though he is 95 years old. The same goes for Germany. On the 6th, a 95-year-old woman who worked as a commander’s secretary in a Nazi camp was charged with aiding the Holocaust (Nazi-permitted genocide). Sentenced to probation.
The efforts of countries around the world to trace historical errors to the end and repeatedly apologize are drawing more attention in contrast to the Japanese government’s attitude to avoid national responsibilities such as the Japanese military comfort women issue and forced labor. On the 8th of last month, the Japanese government rebelled against the victims of comfort women, saying that it was a violation of international law when the Seoul District Law ruling that the Japanese government should compensate for damages. The recent wave of comfort women dissertation by Ramsayer, a Harvard Law School professor, is in the same vein. Professor Ramsey defined comfort women victims as prostitutes based on false data, and was publicly criticized by professors of history at the same university for “violation of academic integrity.” Researchers of Japanese history at Northwestern University and professors at the University of Connecticut also wrote counter thesis one after another. Another paper by Professor Ramsey on the massacre of Koreans during the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake is scheduled to be revised in large part before publication in August this year at the request of a British academic journal.
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