It’s tough times for Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper, as its president has recently apologized for faulty reporting on multiple issues. One scandal has implications for Japan’s debates over remembrance of its wartime history. The left-leaning[…]
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Bend it Like Brandt
As Sino-Japanese relations have tensed over island disputes, both countries are increasingly mobilizing domestic nationalism against the other. Shinzo Abe overturned a legacy of avoiding the controversial Yasukuni shrine with his December visit there—a visit[…]
American eyes on Yasukuni Shrine
Americans oppose Shinzo Abe’s visits to Yasukuni Shrine because of the shrine’s specific attributes, because they feel Japan has not grappled with its wartime atrocities, and because of their national security agenda in[…]