Posted on 08/03/2016 1:50:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A woman with revisionist views of World War II history was named Japan’s defense minister in a Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, a move that could unsettle relations with Asian neighbors with bitter memories of wartime atrocities.
Tomomi Inada, who had served as reform minister and most recently held one of the top posts in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will replace Gen Nakatani as defense minister. She’s the second female to fill the post. […]
Inada, a lawyer-turned-lawmaker and one of Abe’s favorite cronies, is a regular at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which honors war dead including convicted war criminals, a gesture seen by neighbors as an endorsement of Japan’s militaristic past.
She has also made remarks defending Japan’s wartime atrocities, including forcing many Asian women into sexual servitude in military-run brothels, and has led a party committee to re-evaluate the judgment of war tribunal by the Allies. …
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It would be hard to find a Jap that didn’t have revisionist views. Most of the current generation of Japs don’t even know that the war happened.
All those Jap doctors who tortured prisoners and vivisected them are also treated with honor in Japan.
Some specifics would be useful here. What, exactly, has she said? Did she really defend sex slavery and horrific atrocities, or did she make some generic "honor the veterans" remark that is being twisted into much more than was meant?
I can’t believee you posted about the vivisection. and Dont forget switching arms on chinese to see what would happen. and leaving them in the freezing cold. and injecting them with all kinds of things.
and so much more. revisionist.
Is that the sanitary word for what she is.
They were that cruel 70 years ago.
Not 1000.
Bad choice for the position.
Looks like Japan is trying to put a bit of a scare up China’s skirt.
Might not be a bad thing.
The future is the focus for Japan.They live in an increasingly dangerous neighborhood and are terrified of North Korea and Communist China...with good reason.
The international left is encouraging it all. Anything to tear down “Pax Americana” and throw the world into chaos.
If only they could be more like Obama, watching live drone strikes any night of the week against countries America's never been at war with.
It's Pax Americana that's thrown the world into chaos, Globie.
Globie. I’ll have to use that one, thanks.
The globalist left, who hated it, got rid of it already. Weakness in the face of Iran and the rest of the Islamic terror was the beginning of the end, and Obama’s refusal to uphold the US commitments to its allies in Asia thanks to the still-unspoken alliance with Red China will put the final nail in the coffin. There won’t be Pax Otherica. This is all harbingers of more war, perhaps the final one.
Every nation indulges in revisionist history to some extent—the victors just usually have more liberty to write their own narratives.
Not that I endorse revisionism either way.
But pragmatically speaking, Japan’s not really in a position to dwell on the past. Given that the entire world is falling apart, this is a time to be alert & forward-looking.
PS. I hope you’re not counting on some kind of Pax Sino-Australiana as those who sold Darwin Port to the People’s Liberation Army are. Their chains will not rest lightly upon them.
“(W)ith contempt shall I fling my glove in the world’s face; then shall I stride through the wreckage a creator!”The chaos is no accident, of course.
— Marx
Laughably lame.
How are things at Raytheon - inventory exhausted?
So that matter you find of no concern?
Might not be a bad thing.
Absolutely. Especially after Trump's promise to make our current allies pay for their own defense (as they should)
It is in their best national interests to revere their war dead. Up till now we revered ours. Now we have Marxist Obama who says monuments to the confederacy is racist and wrong.
Nobody is hoping for a Pax Sino-whatever. Australia dug that grave, they can lay in it.
Their problem, not ours.
Don't retreat to turf you're confident on.
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