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...Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has called upon Japan to revise its pacifist constitution, the country has taken a turn to the right, and political intimidation by fringe rightist groups isn't unknown. In August the house of senior legislator Koichi Kato was burned to the ground in an arson attack, in what was taken as a warning against Kato's outspoken liberal views. It remains to be seen whether Itoh's shooting was another political warning, or just a personal grudge...
China is usually the first nation to protest-loudly-any perceived backsliding by Japan on its acceptance of guilt for World War II abuses. Yet, last month, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied Japan's wartime army had forced tens of thousands of Asian women into sexual slavery, igniting an international furor, Beijing stayed conspicuously quiet. China's diplomatic silence was the latest sign of an unexpected thaw in the two nations' often icy relationship...
...course, Wen would never go to Yasukuni, because China sees the shrine as a symbol of unrepentant Japanese imperialism. Beijing has made Yasukuni a litmus test - it was only when new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became purposefully vague on visiting the shrine that icy Sino-Japanese relations began to thaw. Yushukan perpetuates the lie that the war was unavoidable, and that the 5,843 mostly young men who lost their lives as kamikazes died for a transcendent cause, died to save Japan. The museum is a celebration of wasted lives...
...Japanese student textbooks told too, until the government announced on March 30 that it had ordered publishers to delete those passages. Instead one textbook now reads that Okinawans were "driven to mass suicide," without mentioning the army's role. The change is the latest controversial tweak by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who also recently denied that women were forced into sexual slavery during...
...SHINZO ABE, Japanese Prime Minister, referring to World War II--era sex slaves, in his most vocal apology since he came under fire in early March for saying there was no evidence that the Japanese military coerced women in occupied nations into sexual services during World...