Man, I though it was a serious history ….

The Koreans were in fact the victims of Japanese atrocities. Do you have any doubt about it?

Apologies? Oh sure … so many times they “apologized” and so many times they gave proof of their constricted and sorrow hearts by honoring the glory of their imperial army and insulting the memory of the victims of their imperialism ambition in Asia. It seems that the Japanese people (and you) have a different concept of what apology is when it comes to war crimes.

Buddy, the criminal forgets the crimes, but the victim never … Japan has the power to stop the complains from Koreans, and Hatoyama seems to be willing to do something about it, but despite of the fact that people like him acknowledges that Japan still owes a proper apology to Korea morons like you prefer to deal this matter by insulting even more the victims. Is this some kind of Japanese way to say sorry?

The problem with that Wikipedia list, James, is that it provides no context, such as the fact that Murayama's apology was — thanks to the LDP — clearly his own view and not the view of the government.

From the August 28, 1995 edition of Time:

Previous Prime Ministers used the term hansei, a fudge word meaning "regret," to express some measure of sorrow. Since his election last year, Murayama, a socialist at the head of an unwieldy coalition dominated by conservative Liberal Democrats, has been determined to show that Japan could at last admit its guilt. Liberal Democrats made sure the final wording of a Diet resolution was bloodless. So Murayama chose to speak out on his own, a bold act for a Prime Minister in the highly choreographed world of Japanese politics.

There are better contemporary articles on this, which explain how Murayama's apology was just his own, but I've got other things to do this morning, so I'll just leave that. This is some of the context not provided by the Wikipedia article that gets linked so often.

But we can't say the LDP is completely unlike the German model, either. The sacking of the Air Force head in 2008 or 2009 was analogous to sacking a German military chief over Holocaust denial or Hitler praise.

Japan has apologized numerous times about the war. Anybody who has lived in Korea for a couple years knows that all the riots and marches aren't based in reality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_…

Sometimes you just have to brute-force the arbitrary discrimination of the spam filter…

…not a proud or elegant solution… but… computers eventually do what I want them to do… not the other way around.

Today’s bazaar filter:

“ssppeecciiaalliisstt”

Who would of guessed? Usually, it is the work CCOOCCKK accidentally spelled in the middle of a word… like, “Mr. Handcoock said, blah blah, blah.”

But speciaalist?

Oh. Wait. I get it, now. Ciaalis. (with one a)

I feel so square.

But I guess it is better than crosswords and more legal than hacking a database.