03.09.2024, Moscow.
Japan and the US keep quiet about past military conflicts due to their current interest in a military alliance, said Russian Presidential Aide Nikolay Patrushev in an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper on September 2.
Today, these countries keep quiet about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki carried out by the US in 1945, as well as about Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Patrushev noted.
According to Nikolay Patrushev, who is also the current chairman of the Russian Maritime Board, after WWII, the US imposed on the Japanese the idea of its full military guardianship, supposedly capable of ensuring their security. As a result, an alliance treaty was formed, where Japanese-US relations were based on Washington’s readiness to protect the territorial integrity of Japan.
As a result, it became inconvenient for both countries to recall previous conflicts. “Thus, Japan keeps quiet about the crimes committed by the US, the only country in the world to use nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the US is trying not to raise the issue of the US Pacific Fleet, which Japan destroyed in Pearl Harbor,” Patrushev said.
Modern Japan is already taking steps towards new militarization. “Thus, the Yasukuni Shrine canonizes warriors who ‘gave their lives for the emperor,’ including those who fell during WWII,” he said, adding that 14 high-ranking officers of that time, executed as war criminals, have become especially revered.
Certain ships from the modern Japanese fleet – the so-called Self-Defense Forces – have received the names of those warships from World War II that took part in battles against the USSR, Patrushev concluded.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
