I wouldn’t call him imperialist, but he repeatedly denied WW2 Japanese war crimes (in particular the Nanking massacre and the use of Korean ‘comfort women’). This is the rough equivalent of a German Chancellor denying the Holocaust.
I wouldn’t call him imperialist either. I think he was a pretty decent leader for Japan. He wasn’t murdered for his politics, but because of his religious affiliation.
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Why was he imperialist?
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Okay, so conservative and revisionist, but not imperialist. Maybe imperial-adjacent. Thanks for the deets.
I wouldn’t call him imperialist, but he repeatedly denied WW2 Japanese war crimes (in particular the Nanking massacre and the use of Korean ‘comfort women’). This is the rough equivalent of a German Chancellor denying the Holocaust.
I think that’s par for the course for Japanese politicians. A lot of them seem to categorically deny all the atrocities.
I wouldn’t call him imperialist either. I think he was a pretty decent leader for Japan. He wasn’t murdered for his politics, but because of his religious affiliation.
do you got your own spoon at least?
I think for the discussion it’d be a lot better to explain why. Makes things easier for all