My commentary on the president’s visit to Hiroshima and the politics of apology, featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Associated Press. I also did a radio interview with Monocle (story begins at 5:31).
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Shinzo Abe’s Balancing Act
We see lots of negative reaction to Abe’s 70th anniversary statement, both from the media and from Japan’s neighbors. But this ‘glass half-empty’ verdict “ignores the other half of a very interesting glass.” My op-ed[…]