Emperor Akihito on Monday expressed ¡°deep remorse¡± over World War II during the annual commemoration service at Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo marking Japan¡¯s surrender while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used more ambiguous wording.
In his speech on the 71st anniversary of the surrender, Abe pledged that ¡°we shall never again repeat the horrors of war¡± and underscored that Japan has not waged war for more than seven decades.
But he stopped short of mentioning Japan¡¯s wartime aggression overseas and omitted any mention of remorse.
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