Aquino, Abe never to score 'A' on history test
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E-mail Xinhua, June 4, 2015
Aquino is on a four-day visit to Japan, and is expected to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday with an aim of enhancing bilateral maritime security cooperation in focus and getting Japan to side with him on the South China Sea issue.
Agenda-tight Aquino wooed Abe during another speech in the Japanese upper house by saying that "I see the Japanese spirit embodied in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's leadership."
For Aquino, he has a very good reason to flatter Abe since the latter also shares his illiteracy on history.
However, Aquino's awkward greasiness comes at a time when the international community is gravely concerned about Abe's historical revisionism. The "Abenesia" on Japan's wartime history is more dangerous now that the historical revisionist is trying to bring back the Japan Empire that occupied the Philippines during the WWII.
As the president of the Philippines, although a history amateur, Aquino should not forget that his country was also a victim of Japan's wartime barbarities and, right now, some Filipino survivors of Japan's military sexual slavery system are struggling to fight for their dignity since Abe's administration is trying to whitewash the inhumane war crimes.
Abe also needs reminding that in line with the Potsdam Declaration, Japan returned the islands it occupied in the South China Sea during WWII to its owner -- China. But the argument here is weakened since the Japanese prime minister rejects to accept the world-recognized Potsdam Declaration which rules Japan waged an aggression war in the past.
Aquino said in the Japanese Diet that the Philippines and Japan are the "most vocal defenders" of stability and prosperity in maritime and coastal East and Southeast Asia, but their actions actually prove that they are simply the most vocal offenders against peace and stability in the region.
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