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Japan: Defending Kyuma

Friday, July 6th, 2007 @ 00:50 UTC

by Chris Salzberg

Countries:: Japan, U.S.A.
Topics:: Human Rights, War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics

DeOrio at Trans-Pacific Radio has posted a detailed essay defending former Defense Minister Kyuma Fumio's infamous remarks regarding the U.S. A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WW2. DeOrio writes that Kyuma's “departure from the Defense Ministry and replacement by Yuriko Koike can only be a benefit to the Ministry and to Japan. Nevertheless, he deserved to be hoisted on his own petard, not pushed out by lame sound bite politics.”

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ThatGuy

Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma was correct. Modern Japan is as wrong as imperial Japan. Rewriting history can not be tolerated.

# 2007-07-7 at 8:26 am

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