The burden of Japan/ Christian Caryl

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2007Subject(s): In: Newsweek 30 April 2007, pp.32-35Summary: Shinzo Abe faces a tough balancing act: keeping his conservative happy, Abe's delicate dilemma how to make amends for the past without alienating his base also offers a major opportunity. For another Japan is not the only country in the region to twist history for political purposes. Lots of commentators have suggested that Abe simply could sidestep wartime questions, avoided the Yasukuni issue and leaving history to the historians.
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Shinzo Abe faces a tough balancing act: keeping his conservative happy, Abe's delicate dilemma how to make amends for the past without alienating his base also offers a major opportunity. For another Japan is not the only country in the region to twist history for political purposes. Lots of commentators have suggested that Abe simply could sidestep wartime questions, avoided the Yasukuni issue and leaving history to the historians.

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