Sunday, March 09, 2014

Mr Abe's Revisionism

In Japan many people cannot find their own places in the society and have to work part-time and live a poor life in the face of higher tax. Mr Abe was meant to include them by making someone a bad guy, and the bad guy is the post-war premise that Japan did a lot of cruel things in the past.

Regarding Comfort Women in Korea and Nanjing Holocaust in China, it's an irony that the starter was Japanese themselves; the first reporter of Comfort Women is a nonfiction writer Senda Kakou, whereas of Nanjing massacre is a historian Iyenaga Saburo.

The problem Mr Abe faces is, even though China and Korea are making use of these issues for their political purposes, not the problem with China and Korea, but rather with Japan and Japanese.

日本では多くの人々が自分の居場所が見つけられず、増税に直面しつつ苦しい生活に直面している。安倍首相はそういった人々を誰かを悪者にすることで仲間に入れるつもりで、その悪者が日本がたくさん残虐なことをしたという戦後の前提だった

韓国における慰安婦と中国の南京事件に関して、口火を切ったのは日本人自身だったことは皮肉だ。慰安婦を最初に言ったのはノンフィクション作家千田夏光、南京虐殺は歴史学者の家永三郎である。

安倍首相が抱える問題は、例え中韓が政治利用しようと、皮肉にも中韓との問題ではなく、日本と日本人自身の問題であるということだ。

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