NO MORE APOLOGIES FROM JAPAN’S PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE–AS PREVIOUS JAPAN PRIME MINISTER HAVE DONE–NEVER NEVER IS THE MOTTO OF NO MORE APOLOGY FROM JAPAN FOR WW2–AS MR ABE WOULD ONLY HINT OF SPEECHES ABOUT WANTING TO APOLOGIZE BUT NEVER OUTWARDLY CLAIMING TO SAY SORRY–AS THE NEW JAPAN REFORMS ITS INTERPRETATION NOT JUST THE ATTITUDE BUT ALSO INTERPRETATION OF ITS CONSTITUTION TO OPENLY EXPAND THE ROLE FOR ITS MILITARY DEFENSE FORCE INTO AN OFFENSIVE ONE

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday expressed his remorse over the sexual slavery of Asian women during World War II, but stopped short of issuing his own apology.

“I am deeply pained to think about the comfort women who experienced immeasurable pain and suffering as a result of victimization due to human trafficking,” Abe said at a joint White House press conference with U.S. President Barack Obama.

Mainstream historians say an estimated 200,000 women from Korea, China and other Asian nations were systematically raped by Japan’s imperial forces in military brothels.

Abe—who would like to move beyond Japan’s checkered past—has been under fierce pressure to repeat the apologies of his predecessors.

He has enraged South Korea and China by visiting controversial war shrines.

And some of Abe’s right-wing supporters have poured fuel on the fire by alleging some of the women were common prostitutes, and are fighting a vigorous rear-guard battle to alter the narrative

“Japan has apologized and made reparations numerous times in the past,” said Shihoko Goto an expert at the Wilson Center. “But actions and words by officials have essentially cancelled out those apologies; hence the finger-wagging about Japan’s sincerity.”

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye last Sunday warned “time is running out” for Tokyo to apologize.

Abe and Park have not met for a formal two-way summit since they took power in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

The issue has become a major diplomatic obstacle for Washington.

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