„The Nanjing Massacre is as significant to China as the two atomic bombings are to Japan and from this point of view and for the future of relations between Japan and its closest neighbors, the Japanese government needs to confront its own behavior and empathize more with those it caused suffering to, as many around the world empathize with Japan‘s own tragedies. Trying to hide or cover up history is cowardly and our generation doesn‘t want to inherit this label just because of political arrogance,“Onishi concluded.