Comments on: Grand-Daughter of former PM Hideki Tojo To Run For Diet Seat

By: equinoXio » » El “legado” del nieto de un criminal de guerra

Sat, 12 May 2007 07:05:39 +0000

[...] Lo advertía el analista Minoru Morita cuando le dijo a la revista Time que Abe "es el político más peligroso de Japón […] De los más de 700 miembros de la Dieta, Abe es el más derechista, el más apasionado, el más nacionalista. Él es el político que podría llevar al país a la guerra". En Okinawa se han hecho sentir las protestas por la construcción de un aeropuerto militar estadounidense en la bahía de Henoko, que se suma a la base existente desde 1972. La conmemoración del sexagésimo aniversario de la Constitución estuvo marcada por las manifestaciones de rechazo a las reformas propuestas por el oficialismo. El movimiento pacifista crece, mientras el régimen busca justificar la necesidad de reformar "un articulito" para apoyar las misiones "humanitarias" en Oriente Medio y nacionalizar el polémico santuario Yasukuni, donde son venerados algunos de los criminales de guerra, entre ellos el ex primer ministro Hideki Tōjō (juzgado y ejecutado en 1948), cuya nieta está haciendo campaña para obtener un escaño en la cámara alta en las legislativas de julio y quien hace poco estuvo "defendiendo" el templo en la televisión surcoreana. [...]

By: Dr.Yu

Dr.Yu — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:21:37 +0000

“It would be wonderful to see the hysterical reactions of China and Korea if she ever won though….”

I´m about to get hysterical !!!

By: the overthinker

the overthinker — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:09:53 +0000

I’ve seen an interview with her – she has some very strident views on certain issues to do with the war and the Emperor etc, issues straight out of the more conservative members of the Tsukurai. Of course she won’t ever be the next Tojo, save in name, as the situation is radically different. It would be wonderful to see the hysterical reactions of China and Korea if she ever won though….

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:10:41 +0000

This is a good stuff to measure whether Japn is really getting nationalistic or not.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:18:12 +0000

I don’t think there’s much of a problem with her running. Just because she is related to Tojo doesn’t make her the ‘next’ Tojo. I hope people will give her accurate consideration and not judge a book by its cover.

Of course I’m saying this without knowing anything about the woman but none the less…

By: Kaspian

Kaspian — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:07:04 +0000

While I have my doubts she’d actually win, if she did I could only imagine the reactions we’d see from Korea and China.

By: the overthinker

the overthinker — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:56:33 +0000

She’ll have to do better than a one-note “Grandpa was framed”. Her stance on the elderly could help, but it will be interesting to see if people are put off by her name. (I know it’s not remotely in the same league, but I have read that the last surviving descendants [not direct] of Adolf Hitler have agreed not have children to let the name die out – seems it would be easier just to change it. Something like Schicklgruber perhaps….)

“a right-wing activist who claimed Japan’s was a war of self-defense and that it was “unfair” that her grandfather was judged a Class-A war criminal.”

Hard to get away with the first point (though Bush has done similar), the second is a very valid critique. Justice Pal from India made those points in his 1000-page plus judgement when he acquitted the lot of them.