San Francisco, Mar.2, (People’s Daily Online)---Mike Honda, a Japanese American congressman, serving as the U.S. Representative for Silicon Valley was honored honorary curator of WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall in San Mateo on Saturday. 

He said at the ceremony that he hopes the Japanese government to acknowledge its responsibility for the past and stop distorting history, thus showing the whole world their attitudes towards these issues.

Florence Fang, an entrepreneur and philanthropist in the San Francisco Bay Area, also the founder and curator of the memorial hall, said that Mike Honda is the fourth honorary curator of the organization founded in 2014. 

The San Francisco-based museum established by overseas Chinese to commemorate the anti-Japanese War, was attacked by hackers of unknown origin on July 9, 2014. Two days after its website was officially established on July 7, the 77th anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, which escalated into the full-scale Japanese invasion of Chinese mainland, a conflict which would later become a theater in the global conflict of World War II.

Honda said that memorizing the WWII Pacific War doesn’t mean looking back, but carrying on for the future. The United States also has disgraceful past, the black people period, for instance. However, the country does not cover it. Only get the people acknowledged of the past, can they appreciate the freedom and democracy they are enjoying now.

2015 is the year commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. The Second World War ended with the defeat of Germany and Japan in 1945.

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War Thursday, calling upon all United Nations member states not to forget the tremendous sacrifices made and the horrendous atrocities committed during the war.