The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan has recently won a 2 3rds majority in both the upper and lower houses of legislature.
Among their stances are the amendment of the constitution that was basically forced upon Japan at the end of the last world war. Parts they would like to repeal include the military restrictions. This sounds all good and moderate until, accorsing to the article, more extreme ends may be hidden in the party's agenda.
dozens of LDP legislators and ministers — including Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe — are members of a radical nationalist organization called Nippon Kaigi, which believes (according to one of its members, Hakubun Shimomura, who until recently was Japan’s education minister) that Japan should abandon a “masochistic view of history” wherein it accepts that it committed crimes during the Second World War. In fact, in Nippon Kaigi’s view, Japan was the wronged party in the war.According to the Congressional Research Service, Nippon Kaigi believes that “Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia” during WW2, that the “Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate,” and that the rape of Nanking was either “exaggerated or fabricated.” It denies the forced prostitution of Chinese and Korean “comfort women” by the Imperial Japanese Army, believes Japan should have an army again — something outlawed by Japan’s current constitution — and believes that it should return to worshipping the emperor
Well then.
Discuss.
Personally, I have no idea how credible this paper is. Abe didn't seem so bad to me. But if this is true, then it points to things that could potentially get pretty ugly. I think while globalism is falling, populist, Radical Islamist and even Ultranationalist groups are rising. The phenomenon is observable worldwide. To what's happening in Europe to the middle east, and apparently in the far east. It seems like extremely far right agendas are atarting to unfold. And with tentions between major world powers increasing. I don't think it can possibly end well for anyone.
I don't agree with them on the best way to counter fascists and think it's as bad as preemptive warfare, which it practically is in my opinion except pursued by an ideological association rather than a country.
