{"id":245509,"date":"2016-05-24T01:28:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T01:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/apology-to-japan-would-mean-us-admits-past-crimes-analyst\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T01:28:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T01:28:46","slug":"apology-to-japan-would-mean-us-admits-past-crimes-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/apology-to-japan-would-mean-us-admits-past-crimes-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Apology to Japan would mean US admits past crimes: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"83\">\n<p><strong>The United States will not apologize to Japan over its 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki because such an apology would mean an acknowledgment of Washington\u2019s past crimes, says an analyst.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keith Preston made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Monday when asked about President Barack Obama who has said Washington is not sorry for what it did to Japan in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>This Friday, Obama will become the first sitting US president to ever tour the site of the world\u2019s first nuclear bombing that killed more than 140,000 people in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The attack was followed by another US atomic bombing on the port city of Nagasaki three days later, killing about 73,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, when Japanese national broadcaster NHK asked Obama if an apology would be included in remarks he plans to make in Hiroshima, he said, \u201cNo, because I think that it&#8217;s important to recognize that in the midst of war, leaders make all kinds of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/05\/24\/467104\/US-Obama-Japan-Hiroshima-Nagasaki\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will not apologize to Japan over its 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki because such an apology would mean an acknowledgment of Washington\u2019s past crimes, says an analyst. Keith Preston made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Monday when asked about President Barack Obama who has said Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}