{"id":21696,"date":"2020-08-15T14:41:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T05:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/deep-remorse-japanese-emperor-marks-75th-anniversary-of-surrender"},"modified":"2020-08-15T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T05:41:25","slug":"deep-remorse-japanese-emperor-marks-75th-anniversary-of-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21696","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Deep remorse&#8217;: Japanese emperor marks 75th anniversary of surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naruhito reflects on war actions at Covid-curtailed ceremony, marked elsewhere by former foes as Victory in the Pacific or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/uk-to-mark-75th-anniversary-of-victory-over-japan-day\">VJ Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan has marked the 75th anniversary of its surrender in the second world war with Emperor Naruhito expressing \u201cdeep remorse\u201d over his country\u2019s wartime actions at a sombre annual ceremony curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Naruhito pledged to reflect on the war\u2019s events and expressed hope that the tragedy would never be repeated. There was no word of apology from the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who gave thanks for the sacrifices of the Japanese war dead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/deep-remorse-japanese-emperor-marks-75th-anniversary-of-surrender\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naruhito reflects on war actions at Covid-curtailed ceremony, marked elsewhere by former foes as Victory in the Pacific or VJ DayJapan has marked the 75th anniversary of its surrender in the second world war with Emperor Naruhito expressing \u201cdeep remor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21697,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions\/21697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}