(This Monday morning, NHK Radio News in Japan told that there is a movement in the Virginia state to reconsider the era of slavery and offer official apologies to African Americans for the atrocities their ancestors suffered.
The estimated compensation, if applied at all to African Americans, would amount to 100 trillion dollars which is almost equal to a total amount of US GDPs for eight years, according to NHK News comments.
The US Government has seldom offered an apology to victims of its erroneous policy, though President Ronald Reagan in 1988 expressed official regrets to Japanese Americans who had been treated badly during WWII, which has been highly regarded in Japan and by Japanese.
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African Americans and Japanese are two key races in the latest era of 4000-year human spiritual history since Abraham left Mesopotamia just after the collapse of the last kingdom of the Sumerians.
Therefore I have to say something about them.
Slave trade generated big profits to the British, which became a capital for future industrialization of England as well as for promoting their colonization and plantation in India and various areas in the world.
The Civil War in the U.S. was really a meeting point of two historical trends of "industrialization" and "plantation" promoted by the British, both of which were based on capitals accumulated by sacrificing Africans for slavery.
Blood, sweats, and tears of ancestors of the contemporary African Americans are really worth 100 trillion dollars to be retrieved from the Anglo-Saxon.
As for Japanese, you just have to appraise their history; for example, when Tower of London was built around 1100, Kyoto was enjoying already 300-year history of prosperity after several-hundred-year prosperity in older capitals, in Nara, of the ancient Japan. Kyoto and Nara are still famous for cultural treasures and legacies, including the world oldest wooden architectures [temples] with higher cultural value, still remained today.
[Today is a national holiday in Japan. I am now reading a book on New York, which I may report later if the God wishes...])
"DON'T COLLECT MORE THAN LEGAL"