He can apologize on behalf of his predecessors. I don't see a problem with that. The images of children with their skin hanging off is worth an apology at the very least.

Japan was a rabid country that committed endless atrocities across Asia and attempted to initiate a plague on the North American mainland with plans to try again.

Seriously, does anyone here honestly believe Japan would have refrained from using nuclear bombs if they had them? While often overlooked, they were in many ways as violent and horrific as the Nazis.

Don't apologize and move on.

The firebombing the US did to Japanese cities was a lot worse then the two atomic bombs.

Nanking is one of the most horrific things I've read on all of World War II.

Not exactly legitimate grounds to level a military establishment of a country not directly involved. And as much as I love Japanese culture, they were monsters during WWII and needed to be put down, regardless. 

I honestly think the reason the mainsteram in the west have so little memory of what Japan was doing while we remember the Nazis like they fell yesterday is simply due to the Nazi's victims being fellow white-faced westerners. Whether people realize it or not, we always give far more attention to the plight of fellow westerners than we do, say, those living in China under Japanese occupation. It doesn't speak well of us, but it's evident in how much news every attack on a western country gets compared to the brief sentence that scrolls along the bottom of the television mentioning bombings in Baghdad or elsewhere.

When one compares the two, there are more similarities between the Nazis and that particular Japanese regime than there are differences. When most people think of Japan now, though, they think of the wonderful country that rose from the aftermath. There does not appear to be anywhere near the guilt within the country or the reminders from without it that Germans to this day still face.

Personally, I don't think there should be any guilt felt; few (if any) who were directly responsible for the policies of the world's nations leading up to and through WWII have long since died. I certainly don't mind if Obama comments on how terrible nuclear bombs are and how wars of that scale leave you with zero good options, but we should be past demanding apologies from one another as it dredges up old hostilities that really ought to be left buried.

I am pretty sure the number of Russians alone killed from the conflict with the Nazi's far outpaces what Japan did to anyone by a good number. 

Well, if I am at war with some nations and another nation which I am neutral with supporting my enemies, will be considered an enemy. Simple as that.

I'm not speaking merely of a body count, but the manner in which they treated those they attacked and occupied, as well as engaging in the torture of captured soldiers and attempting to initiate plagues. They stood out in an already horrific global conflict as being uniquely horrific themselves.

As for the Russians, I must give Stalin as much credit for their deaths as I do Hitler. Far more died than was necessary solely for that man's vanity.

NO.