• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      I think that’s par for the course for Japanese politicians. A lot of them seem to categorically deny all the atrocities.

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      4 months ago

      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.