Refusal to apologize reflects US' wariness of Japan
US President Barack Obama is expected to pay a visit to Hiroshima on Friday during the G7 summit in Japan, but he has said he will not be apologizing for the atomic bombing of the Japanese city during World War II.
Such a statement is crystal-clear proof that sharp contradictions and differences exist between the United States and Japan under the cloak of their intimate cooperation, and these appear even more evident if the bargaining and concessions between the two countries on the event's venue and Obama's agenda in Japan are considered.
Under Japan's unremitting efforts, Obama did agree to visit Hiroshima, but his refusal to make an apology for the US' bombing of the city indicates that any US concessions are built on the precondition that none of its own principles are breached.
