Abe on a pretentious remorse visit to Hawaii

A series of commemorative events have been held in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, ahead of the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims on Tuesday, with many people mourning the deaths of relatives who were killed in the massacre.

More than 300,000 Chinese citizens fell victim to the invading Japanese troops in Nanjing from December 1937 to January 1938. But Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not seem to be bothered that Japan is yet to offer a sincere apology to the neighboring countries that were occupied and terrorized by Japan before and during World War II. Instead, he has decided to visit Pearl Harbor on Dec 26 with US President Barack Obama 75 years after Japan launched an attack on Hawaii.

But Abe's visit to Hawaii - the first by a Japanese leader to Pearl Harbor since the end of World War II - is about "consoling the souls of those who died in the war", not to apologize for Japan's wartime crimes, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has said. Which means Abe is not likely to apologize for the attack on Hawaii that killed more than 2,000 US citizens.