Anime Great desires Peace, not likely to get it.

Hayao Miyazaki, according to Donga, has called on the Japanese to apologize for WWII comfort women war crimes, also calls for Japan to remain de militarized:
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2013072017818

It is telling that hew recently completed a 5 year project on the developer of the Mitsubishi Zero, Jiro Horikoshi, called "Kaze Tachinu" (The Wind has Risen).
While I have not seen it, it is reputed to be a bit downbeat.  His comments reflect the guilt of the times.

While i only checked one Japanese paper, the Asahi Shimbun, there is no record of the comments.  They were made in the July edition of Studio Ghibli’s monthly free magazine “Hot Wind,”

Personally i think Miyazaki-san is wrong in his thoughts, but right in his soul.  Sadly the time has come for the Japanese people to put their guilt aside and remember that people do not start wars, governments do, and the closest analog to Imperial Japan today is the PRC.  There is a telling comment reflecting how pacifism is libel to be fatal:

HM as parphrased by Donga re: territorial disputes
"... both sides divide the land in question “half and half” or jointly manage them, as it would be impossible to resolve the issues through the International Court of Justice."

There's the rub, impossible to resolve the issues through International arbitration, and why is that?  It is because the PRC is going to have their way in the South and East China seas and will not negotiate.

Update: 7/22/12 a better article tweeted by tokyo pop:
http://kotaku.com/hayao-miyazaki-called-anti-japanese-a-traitor-and-865643505