Shinzo Abe's assassination is tragic.
I repeat Shinzo Abe's assassination is tragic. That being said why is the media whitewashing his legacy? He basically was a Japanese Trump.
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religion that has ruled Japan almost continuously since the end of WW2.
Dynasty
His grandfather Nobusuke Kishi:
After World War II, Kishi was imprisoned for three years as a suspected Class A war criminal. However, the U.S. government did not charge, try, or convict him, and eventually released him as they considered Kishi to be the best man to lead a post-war Japan in a pro-American direction. With U.S. support, he went on to consolidate the Japanese conservative camp against perceived threats from the Japan Socialist Party in the 1950s. Kishi was instrumental in the formation of the powerful Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) through a merger of smaller conservative parties in 1955, and thus is credited with being a key player in the initiation of the "1955 System", the extended period during which the LDP was the overwhelmingly dominant political party in Japan.[3][4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi
His father Shintaro Abe:
Shintaro Abe (安倍 晋太郎, Abe Shintarō, 29 April 1924 – 15 May 1991)[1] was a Japanese politician from Yamaguchi Prefecture. He was a leading member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He served as foreign minister from 1982 to 1986.[2] He was the father of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
After graduating from high school in 1944 during World War II, Abe entered a naval aviation school and volunteered to become a kamikaze pilot. The war ended before he could undergo the required training.[5] In 1949 he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, Shintaro Abe began his career as a political reporter for Mainichi Shimbun.[6] He became a politician in 1957, when he started working as a legislative aide of the then-prime minister Nobusuke Kishi.[6] He won his father's seat in the House of Representatives in 1958.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintaro_Abe
His brother Nobuo Kishi:
With his brother Abe's backing, Kishi was elected to the House of Councillors in 2004, representing Yamaguchi Prefecture.[2] He became known as a specialist in security issues.[3] He has served as Parliamentary Secretary for Defense (Fukuda and Aso Cabinet), Vice Chairman, LDP Diet Affairs Committee in the House of Councillors, Vice Chairman, Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters of LDP, Chairman, Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Problems.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Kishi
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
The LDP was formed in 1955[23] as a merger between two of Japan's political parties, the Liberal Party (自由党, Jiyutō, 1945–1955, led by Shigeru Yoshida) and the Japan Democratic Party (日本民主党, Nihon Minshutō, 1954–1955, led by Ichirō Hatoyama), both right-wing conservative parties, as a united front against the then popular Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党, Nipponshakaitō
, now the Social Democratic Party (社会民主党, Shakaiminshutō . The party won the following elections, and Japan's first conservative government with a majority was formed by 1955. It would hold majority government until 1993.[24]
The LDP began with reforming Japan's international relations, ranging from entry into the United Nations, to establishing diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union. Its leaders in the 1950s also made the LDP the main government party, and in all the elections of the 1950s, the LDP won the majority vote, with the only other opposition coming from left-wing politics, made up of the Japan Socialist Party and the Japanese Communist Party.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, the United States Central Intelligence Agency spent millions of dollars attempting to influence elections in Japan to favor the LDP against more leftist parties such as the Socialists and the Communists,[25][26] although this was not revealed until the mid-1990s when it was exposed by The New York Times.[27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)
Nippon Kaigi
Nippon Journalist Norimitsu Onishi says that the organization promotes a revival of the values of the Empire of Japan;[44] Tamotsu Sugano, the author of the bestselling exposé on the group, Research on Nippon Kaigi (日本会議の研究 describes them as a movement democratic in method but intent on turning back sexual equality, restoring patriarchal values, and returning Japan to a pre-war constitution that is neither democratic nor modern,[45] and they are considered to be anti-left and misogynist.[46] On 6 January 2017, sale of the book was banned by a district court for defamation[47][48] pending removal of the offending portion; a revised digital edition continued to be sold.[49] Sales resumed that March when the court allowed a revised edition with 36 characters deleted to appear.[50]
Muneo Narusawa, the editor of Shūkan Kin'yōbi (Weekly Friday) says that, in parallel with historical revisionism, the organization often highlights historical facts that convey Japan as a victim such as with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the Soviets declared war and invaded Manchuria or the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens. Education minister Hakubun Shimomura, the secretary general of the Discussion Group of Nippon Kaigi Diet Members (Nippon Kaigi kokkai giin kondankai, 日本会議国会議員懇談会 , argues for patriotic education and opposes a "masochistic view of history".[51][52]
Jacobin, an American left-wing magazine, said the LDP and Nippon Kaigi carry the legacy of Japanese fascism.[53]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Kaigi
I am embarrassed to admit that I knew almost none of what is posted above until today.