article_snippet.sent: And during his second term, Prime Minister Abe and Prime Minister Abe right-wing allies have continued to question history -- even trying to dilute and rewrite history.
article_snippet.sent: Some say that Japan has already apologized enough and it's time to move on.
article_snippet.sent: To those people I say, in light of these continued attempts to rewrite history, for every step forward Japan takes toward peace and reconciliation, Japan takes two steps back.
article_snippet.sent: Decades later, Japan, the Japanese American community, fought for an apology from Japan.
article_snippet.sent: Japan made a mistake, but Japan apologized for a mistake, and healed many wounds as a result.
article_snippet.sent: Japan must now do the same.
article_snippet.sent: Japan must show the maturity of a democratic country, apologize for Japan mistake, and thereby gain the trust of her sister Asian nations.
article_snippet.sent: The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Prime Minister Abe to face Japan's history.
article_snippet.sent: Germany knows something about this.
article_snippet.sent: After World War II, Germany engaged in a painful national "coming to terms with the past" that ripped open old wounds so that they could properly heal.