ABSTRACT
Japan faces two types of accusations for historical injustices: First, its colonial suppression of other countries in the Asia-Pacific region from 1910 onwards and, second, specific injustices during times of war which occurred between the years 1937 and 1945 at the height of Japan's territorial expansion in World War II. From the end of World War II to the present day, Japan has issued numerous official statements of regret for its war of aggression and perpetrations during its long colonial rule in the Asia-Pacific region, none of which has been accepted by the prime victims of its transgressions: China and the two Koreas. China and the two Koreas, the prime victims of Japan's aggression and repression, have rejected Tokyo's manifold expressions of regret as insincere, tardy and have repeatedly called for a real apology. In comparison with Nazi Germany, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) pigeonholed the vast majority of Japan's atrocities as 'crimes against peace'.
