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But they won't fuck off. They will start demanding "reparations" from you for whatever they claim your ancestors did. And if you get pulled into that game, no matter how much you give them it will never be enough. Don't play their game at all.

Here's the problem: you and I might think in that sane way, but out there are people who are not sane. People who think in collectivist terms, who will pretend that you personally are responsible for anything that any of your ancestors ever did.

Sounds like they'd be fighting to lose. But to quote CS Lewis, men who are fighting to die rather than to live are the most dangerous sort of men while they last.

As far as I understand it, Hirohito was largely a ceremonial figure. But there seems to a need among many people in the West to blame all bad actions by government on "dictators". An oligarchy is in reality quite capable of much evil, without one guy giving all the orders. But some people...

A country having a policy of "no, we don't hand over our citizens to be tried in foreign courts" is something I can understand. But there consequence of that in such a case should be: if your guy ever comes back here, you will not be getting him back. Blaming an entire nation for the actions of...