In fact, unlike Germany, Japan has never come to terms with its own responsibility for the Pacific War. Although socialist Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama officially apologized to China in 1995 for the war, Japan has never had a genuine internal debate over its degree of responsibility, and has never made a determined effort to propagate an alternative account to that of Yushukan.
这是一种无法令人信服的立场。事实上，与德国不同，日本从未反省其在太平洋战争中的责任。尽管在社会党人村山富士担任首相时他曾在1995年正式代表官方就战争问题向中国表示道歉，但是日本国内从未对其应该承担多大的责任进行过认真的讨论，也从未真心进行过驳斥游就馆说法的宣传行动。