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100 1 _aCARYL Christian
245 _aThe burden of Japan/
_c Christian Caryl
260 _c2007
520 _aShinzo Abe faces a tough balancing act:
_b 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.
650 _aJAPAN
_xPOLITICS
773 _aNewsweek :
_g 30 April 2007, pp.32-35
945 _i22088-1001
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