Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Monday, 11 July 2022
Uncomfortable Truth
While no one deserves to die in the way that Shinzo Abe did, he was a very, very, very bad man.
Quite. Japan is already run by people who believe, "that Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia from Western colonial powers [a widespread view in several of those countries at the time and since, by the way]; that the 1946–1948 Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate; and that killings by Imperial Japanese troops during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre were exaggerated or fabricated," as well as that the comfort women were not coerced. But then, look who runs Hungary. In NATO. And look who NATO is backing in Ukraine.
Nippon Kaigi.
ReplyDeleteQuite. Japan is already run by people who believe, "that Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia from Western colonial powers [a widespread view in several of those countries at the time and since, by the way]; that the 1946–1948 Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate; and that killings by Imperial Japanese troops during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre were exaggerated or fabricated," as well as that the comfort women were not coerced. But then, look who runs Hungary. In NATO. And look who NATO is backing in Ukraine.
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