Japan's war guilt revisited.

(From The Nation (Thailand))

Byline: The Nation.

It is our obligation as Japan's most influential newspaper to tell our readers who was responsible for starting the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War."

So writes Tsuneo Watanabe, editor-in-chief of Japan's (and the world's) most widely circulated newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, in the introduction to the book, "From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor: Who Was Responsible".

Watanabe, who is now in his eighties and served in the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII, was bothered by the way unfinished business concerning the war continued to hinder Japan's progress. As a remedy, he set up a War Responsibility Re-examination Committee at his newspaper to undertake …