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...kamikaze lie will be given a new lease on life next month when a new movie, I Go to Die For You, takes romanticization of the kamikaze to the big screen. It was written by Shintaro Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo and one of Japan's most nationalistic politicians. That such a film would play in the mainstream and be made with technical support from today's Japanese military, which you'd think would steer clear of this particular subject, will be grist for the mill to those warning of a rise in "dangerous" nationalism in Japan...
...Japanese wariness towards foreigners is a longstanding association of foreigners with crime and rowdiness. This stereotype was most tragically evinced following the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake, when rumors about Korean residents committing acts of sabotage led to mob violence and numerous fatalities. As recently as 2000, right-wing Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro warned of foreigners creating civil disorder in the aftermath of an earthquake. Though the vast majority of the public rejected the comments, they struck a chord with some. Given this history, the new Japanese fingerprinting law cannot help but have some very unpleasant connotations. It could, in effect...
...Damages sought by a group of French-language teachers and translators from Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara for calling French a "failed international language...
...most significant break from the past is this: neoconservative views have become mainstream in Japan. Shintaro Ishihara, who was once considered a fringe ultra-nationalist, is now the wildly popular governor of Tokyo. And with the socialist and communist parties effectively defunct, there are far more conservatives in parliament than ever before. The boiler room of the neocon network is the "Young Diet Members' Group for Establishing Security Framework for the New Century." This multiparty coalition of about 270 Diet members was co-founded in 2001 by young, influential lawmakers, including former defense chief Shigeru Ishiba and Seiji Maehara...
...success of the company and others like it-become one of the most expensive places on the planet to do business. In 1989, at the height of Japan-bashing in the U.S., Morita even co-authored a defiantly nationalistic tome-The Japan That Can Say No-with Shintaro Ishihara, now the governor of Tokyo, who believes that Japan should stand up to Washington both militarily and economically...