Jonathan Wild

Jonathan Wild, 17, a Cheney student, cut in shortly after, saying, "I don't think apologizing is what we should do.We just need to remember...and know we will not do it again."Wild said later that apologies "can make people feel better but they don't solve problems all the time."

Jonathan Wild, 17, a Cheney student, cut in shortly after, saying, "I don't think apologizing is what we should do.We just need to remember...and know we will not do it again."Wild said later that apologies "can make people feel better but they don't solve problems all the time.""Mr. Nagase feels apologies are very important but that's for him and not for us.Our side of the war did terrific things as well...But I don't apologize," he said.

I have been thinking a lot over the past week or so about the vexed issue of Japan's war guilt, or rather its alleged lack of it.