Japan’s ruling party is reportedly planning to reexamine the history of Imperial Japan from the Sino-Japanese War in the late 19th century to World War II.
Japanese media reports that the Liberal Democratic Party plans to set up this month a history review panel to mark the 60th anniversary of the party’s founding.
We suspect that the move is related to Japanese nationalists’ persistent efforts to justify Japan’s aggressions against Asian countries in the first half of the 20th century.
The suspicion is strengthened by the reports that the panel, which will directly report to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, plans to review the verdicts handed down by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
The tribunal was established in 1946 to judge the war crimes committed by the leaders of the Empire of Japan since the first Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895).
It ruled 25 Japanese Class-A war criminals guilty of crimes against peace, sentencing seven of them, including wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, to death by hanging.
Japan accepted the jurisdiction by signing the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1952. Yet Japan’s right-wing politicians have long questioned the validity of the rulings. They argue that Tokyo trials simply delivered victors’ justice rather than fair judgments.
"... It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."....I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Sunday, November 15, 2015
SO NOW THAT JAPAN HAS LEGISLATED THE INTERPRETATION OF ITS CONSTITUTION TO DEPLOY ITS MILITARY OUTSIDE OF THE JAPAN PREFICTURES AND INTO OTHER NATIONS IN THE GUISE OF A DEFENSIVE POSTURE IN LIEU OF DEFENDING AN ALLY–ITS LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANTS TO REEXAMINE ITS IMPERIAL JAPAN ADVANCES IN WW2 AND JUDGEMENT HANDED BY THE VICTORS WHO GOES THE SPOILS AND LOOKS TO WANT TO PLACE SQUARELY THE BLAME ON THE UNITED STATES FOR STARTING THE WAR–THE LEFTIST MINDSET AT WORK
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