Outside the parliament building right now, Koreans are protesting over this textbook issue... Korea and China are free to criticize Japan, but I don't think Japan needs to be controlled by what they think.
Does Japan need to apologize to its Asian neighbors over its World War II atrocities? Rather than focusing on the past, I feel we need to promote forward-looking relationships. It's two different things to reflect upon our behavior and keep on apologizing. We have already apologized. . . . 小泉さんは、まともなセンスの持ち主のようです。