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Germany |
Japan |
| Official Apology |
YES.
Offered formal apology to its victims
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NO.
Offered vague, indirect, and personal apologies by its Prime Minster, but not its Emperor or its Parliament.
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| Open its war time record |
YES.
Opened all its wartime archives to researchers and investigators.
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NO.
Refuses to open its archive and sometimes denies the existence of certain files, such records related to wartime military sexual slavery and biochemical warfare experiments.
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| Wartime History in School Textbook |
YES.
Holocaust is taught in school.
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NO.
Wartime atrocities are whitewashed or eliminated in school textbooks
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| Punish war criminal |
YES.
Cooperative in identifying Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice from hidden identities or from exile
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NO.
Refuses to cooperate in war crime investigation
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| Treatment of War Criminals |
Most punished and rejected both by government and society. |
Openly worship war criminal in shrines by government high officials and society at large. Most War Criminal became key government, business, and academic leaders. |
| Identify war criminals |
YES.
Verified over 60,000 names of war criminals per request by the U.S. Dept. of Justice. All have been placed on a list banning their entry into the U.S.
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NO.
Refuses to verify names of war criminals submitted by the U.S. Dept. of Justice by stonewalling its repeated requests.
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| Investigation and restitution of slave labors |
YES.
Coordinated an effort to reach a settlement in which many German companies engaged in slave labor practices will pay $1.7 billion to their wartime victims
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NO.
Conceals records of wartime slavery conducted by Japanese companies. In fact, paid $450 million dollars to "compensate" 135 companies for "managing the contract laborers" after the war. |
| Restitution to the Victims |
YES.
Has paid and continues to pay compensation over 550 million Deutch Marks to Holocaust victims until 2015.
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NO.
Continues refusing to pay any compensations to its wartime victims
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