"What we should not forget about relationship between our nation and your nation is a fact that there was a certain period in the thousands of years of our company when we were the victimizer and you were the victim.
「我が国と貴国との関係で忘れてはならないのは、数千年にわたる交流のなかで、歴史上の一時期に，我が国が加害者であり、貴国がその被害者だったという事実であります。