LONDON – Japanese diplomats had probably hoped that Britain’s decision last month to offer a government gratuity to former British servicemen imprisoned by Japan during World War II would heal a long festering sore in bilateral ties.
Some diplomats even spoke hopefully of a “circle of reconciliation” between the people of Britain and Japan and yearned that the “small bone in the throat” would soon dissolve.
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