「ワルシャワで蜂起して戦った人々と戦争によるすべてのポーランド人犠牲者に対し頭を垂れる。私は、ドイツ人があなた方に対して行った行為に対して赦しを乞いたい。」としている。通常の謝罪表現である「entschuldigung」というドイツ語ではなく、「赦しを乞う(bitte um Vergebung)」という、相手に対応を任せる表現を用いている。ドイツ国民全体の「集団的罪」を否定した前記の立場からは、このような表現方法が論理的必然ともいえる。要は、日本とはロジックを異にしており、単純な比較はできない。
また、2025年の場合は前年と違う傾向があった。筆者が2024年に行ったようにいくつかの国の中国大使館のXについて調査をしたところ、”We never forget 300000”というキャッチフレーズで、在フランス、ドイツ、アメリカ各大使館、さらにイギリス駐在の中国大使個人もXに投稿していた。そしてその投稿を駐英中国大使館が引用した。各国へ拡散するような投稿は2025年が初めてである。
The Press: President Lee met with the Japanese Prime Minister before this summit.
The President: That’s good.
The Press: So is there something to discuss regarding the cooperation among South Korea, U.S. and Japan?
The President: I think so. Look, Japan is a great ally of us. And I had a little bit of a hard time getting you two together because you're still thinking about comfort women. Right? Comfort women. That's all they wanted to talk about, was comfort women. And I thought that was settled a few times over the decades.
But there is an overlapping problem with that.
Perhaps I'm wrong in saying it. Perhaps this isn't right. But the whole -- issue of the women, comfort women, very specifically, we talked. And it was a very big problem for Korea, not for Japan. Japan was,,, wanted to go. They want to get on.
But Korea was very stuck on that. You understand? So, I don't know, perhaps you'd like to answer.
It's a good question. It was hard getting Japan and Korea together because of what took place a long time ago. But Japan wants to do it, I can say.
Korea is a little bit more tenuous.
Please.
President Lee: (speaking Korean)
Translator: The trilateral cooperation among Korea, the U.S. and Japan is very important. And better Korea-Japan relations is also important for the Korea-U.S. relationship as well.
President Lee: (speaking Korean)
Translator: Because I know that, President Trump, that you put emphasis on trilateral cooperation, I made a visit to Japan before coming to the U.S. to settle the difficult issues that we have.
The President: Good. Well, Japan wants to get along very well with you.
And I find them to be great people, great country, obviously, and they want very much to get along with South Korea.
And you have something in common. You know, you want to solve the North Korea problem.
But Japan very much wants to get along with you, and I'm sure they will.
I find the people that I deal with to be wonderful people, as they do with you.
President Lee: (speaking Korean)
Translator: So when I visited Japan and met with Prime Minister Ishiba, I realized that many of the obstacles that existed between our two countries have now been removed.
The President: True. During my term, we removed them during my term.
There was an overlay a little bit, but we removed many of those obstacles during my term.
And, you know, if you look at Prime Minister Abe, who was a great man, he was a great friend of mine, and he was assassinated. But he felt very warmly toward your country, I can tell you that. And the current Prime Minister, who I've gotten to know very well, feels the same way. So I think you're going to have a great relationship with Japan.