Nightline (ABC) - 2001-08-15
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[0:00] I know.
[0:02] >> Live from Portland's Chinese Garden
[0:03] >> tomorrow on AM Northwest.
[0:07] >> August 15th, 2001.
[0:12] >> Street protests in Korea.
[0:17] >> How can we make good friends with people
[0:20] who ignore the many pains they have
[0:23] inflicted on us?
[0:28] outrage in China.
[0:31] >> When you regard war criminals with such
[0:33] awe and respect, how can people believe
[0:36] the past will not be repeated?
[0:39] in Hong Kong and Manila
[0:43] >> and here in the US. I can personally
[0:45] never forgive nor forget the things that
[0:47] happened in the Philippines, in the
[0:49] prison camps, and all the ships that
[0:51] took us to Japan. All over one quiet
[0:54] moment.
[0:57] Tonight, remembrance when history hurts.
[1:06] from ABC News.
[1:11] This is Night Line
[1:13] reporting from Washington, Ted CP.
[1:18] On the face of it, it does seem like
[1:20] something of a tempest in a teapot.
[1:22] World War II, after all, has been over
[1:24] for 56 years. As a matter of fact, the
[1:27] Japanese surrendered 56 years ago today.
[1:30] Japanese Prime Minister Cooisumi had
[1:33] planned to memorialize that occasion by
[1:35] visiting a memorial, a Shinto shrine
[1:38] today. The Yasukuni shrine commemorates
[1:41] 2 and a half million Japanese soldiers
[1:44] who died in war. 2.3 million of them
[1:47] during the Second World War. Prime
[1:50] Minister Quisumi has some tough
[1:52] political decisions to make over these
[1:54] next few months, and many of them are
[1:56] likely to rile Japanese conservatives.
[1:59] The visit to the Yasukuni shrine was
[2:01] intended, among other things, as a
[2:04] gesture to the conservatives. It may be,
[2:06] however, that the Japanese prime
[2:08] minister has succeeded only in angering
[2:10] just about everyone,