PART A: Which statement best expresses the central idea of the text?
A. While dialogues between perpetrators and victims develop a mutual
understanding, they don’t deter people from repeating a crime.
B. The justice system’s focus on punishment fails to foster forgiveness between
people and give victims what they truly desire.
C. Restorative justice is a good way of resolving minor legal conflicts between
people, but it is unlikely to be useful in addressing serious or violent crimes.
D. While victims may feel immediately better after a wrongdoer is punished, it’s
been proven that their sense of satisfaction eventually fades.

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the answer is b) ''i hereby express my profound remorse together with my sincere mourning ''.

the reason being that although all of the options provided are valid the main idea of the speech by prime minister junichiro koizumi is to express his and japan's current antiwar pledge.

he states that 59 years had passed since the war, he acknowledges the 3 million japanese that lost their lives during the war and those countries who were affected by their decisions, as well as the way japan intends to develop relationships across the globe however all of this can be summarize to how japan as a whole regrets the war and its consecuences.

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