[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5289]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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            JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES SHOULD MOVE FORWARD

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Congressman Honda and all 
the Members who are asking that the Prime Minister of Japan try to 
restore the integrity that has been built up to this great nation since 
the war.
  Having been a combat soldier, I know, history will dictate that 
people are not particularly proud of what viciousness can come out of 
physical combat. Without getting into the years of occupation that 
Japan has caused so many Koreans to suffer before the end of World War 
II, we now have found that these two nations have rebuilt themselves 
into being our strongest security and trading partners, and so we 
should remove the stigma of lack of credibility from the Government of 
Japan.
  Certainly I think that most Americans who remember Pearl Harbor, 
Corregidor, and Bataan--I was a kid, but all I knew was that the 
Japanese had attacked us. I can't begin to tell you the visions that 
they tried to have us have. But today they are our friends. Let's try 
to get this behind us and move forward.

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