Is Shinzo Abe fanning nationalist flames?

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota have campaigned for years to find out what happened to their daughter, Megumi Shinzo Abe took up the cause of the Yokota family, and their missing daughter, Megumi, and helped drive it to the top of the political agenda. He and the then prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, went to Pyongyang and secured a stunning confession from the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il. Their vi

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"The nationalist world view portrays Japan as an innocent victim of rapacious(強欲な) and hypocritical foreigners. Right-wing academics, politicians and commentators believe that Japan was forced into a defensive war in the Pacific and was obliged to accept victors' justice after its defeat."

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いろいろ重いなあ……。まあ、少なくとも英語圏のメディアは日本をこう見ている、ということが理解できる記事。