uh... they were the AGGRESSORS? The Japanese started a war? We’re supposed to feel guilty because the US is evil...
Should we also mourn the Nazi dead? What lunacy. The Japanese still act like they are the victims. Asia, besides Japan, at least thinks differently.
You don’t understand the Japanese culture, this is not a symbol to make you feel guilty. Most Japanese understand the necessity of what happened as much as we do.
You’re reading into it something that’s not there. The deaths that day were tragic, regardless of whether or not it was necessary and who bears the blame, and it’s entirely appropriate to memorialize the lives lost. We can feel sorry without feeling guilty. Or at least, we SHOULD be able to. Seems most of the posters in this thread don’t have any difficulty in doing so.