In 1950, the MRA (IC) brought 72 Japanese delegations, including business people, trade union leaders, governors, mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, educators, and politicians, to the Swiss MRA World Congress. I was invited to. The fact that the Japanese, who had lost their self-confidence due to the defeat, were warmly accepted by the people of the world and had the opportunity to hear the experiences of many reconciliations between the people of each country, such as the reconciliation between Germany and France and labor-management cooperation, had a great impact on these delegations. Gave. A group of parliamentarians said at the US Congress on their way home that Chojiro Kuriyama said, "It is regrettable that Japan has broken the friendship between the two countries for a century. Instead, the generous United States forgave Japan and not only acknowledged Japan's survival, but also helped with the reconstruction. "

This apology was not only in the US Congress, but also in the weekly magazine "Saturday Evening Post", "This act of admitting the failure of our country gave a fresh shock." There must always be a point to say, "It was a complete failure at that time," and received great praise.

  In 1955, President Ramon Magsaysay of the Philippines welcomed representatives of MRA from Japan and Asia to Manila, where the scars of war were vivid.
Rep. Jiro Hoshishima apologized for Japan's past mistakes here, paving the way for a compensation agreement that had been difficult negotiations for four years.

At the MRA conference held in Baguio, Philippines in 1957, a representative from Japan made a sincere apology to the people of Asia.
As a result, we were able to reconcile with a representative from South Korea who did not even talk to the representative of Japan at first, and it became a stepping stone to conclude the Japan-Korea Treaty.

Many other reconciliation activities have been undertaken around the world, including the bloodless independence of Morocco in Africa, the peaceful transition from a white government to a black government in Zimbabwe, and the newly independent South Sudan. I am.