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Emperor Akihito calls for young people to honour Japan's war dead and learn about the ravages of conflict.
He said he hoped facts about World War II would be correctly conveyed so the suffering his generation experienced would never be repeated.
The emperor's comments came in a speech marking his 73rd birthday.
Correspondents say teaching Japan's wartime history and remembering the war dead is still highly controversial.
"Now that the number of those who were born after the war increases as years pass by, the practice of mourning the war dead will help them to understand what kind of world and society those in the previous generations lived in," Emperor Akihito said, in remarks made on Wednesday, but only made public on Saturday.
"I sincerely hope that the facts about the war and the war dead will continue to be correctly conveyed to those of the generations that do not have direct knowledge of the war so the kind of ravage of war that we experienced in the past will never be repeated," he added.
However, the emperor avoided touching on how people should honour those who died in World War II.
He made no mention of the Yasukuni shrine, which honours 2.5 million war dead, including 14 people convicted as criminals by a 1948 war tribunal.
Many of Japan's neighbours believe the shrine glorifies Japan's militaristic past, and that visits by the country's leaders show the country has yet to fully face up to past atrocities.
Repeated visits by former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi severely strained relations with China and South Korea in recent years.
Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has not said if he plans to visit Yasukuni himself.
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「明仁天皇が日本の若者に対して戦没者の慰霊と戦争の悲惨さを学ぶことを呼びかけた」として始まるこの記事だが、「戦没者を慰霊することが戦争の記憶を風化させないために必要」という部分がBBCの特派員には引っかかっているようだ。
記事では、天皇が「どのように慰霊すべきかについては一言も触れていない」とし、後段で靖国神社の説明につなげ、あたかも天皇が靖国参拝を暗に奨励しているかのような印象を残している。
少なくとも日本人であれば今の天皇が靖国参拝とは一線を画していることを理解していると思うが、わかっていない記者が書いたこういった記事が広まっていくことで、海外における日本の右傾化イメージが増幅されるのだ。
もっとも日本メディアでの中国や韓国、北朝鮮に関する記事を読めばにたようなものだとは思うが。
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