Japan on Friday marked the 80th anniversary of its surrender to Allied forces in World War II, with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressing ¡°remorse¡± at the national memorial service for war casualties ¡ª the first time a Japanese prime minister has used the word in an Aug. 15 speech since 2012.
¡°We will not repeat the horrors of war. We will not go down the wrong path again. We must engrave the war¡¯s remorse and lessons deeply into our hearts,¡± said Ishiba at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo¡¯s Chiyoda Ward.
The word remorse was last used in 2012 by then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who led the Democratic Party of Japan at the time, in his speech marking the 67th anniversary of Japan¡¯s World War II surrender.
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