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LDP to scrutinize Allied Occupation, postwar tribunal over ‘faulty views on history’

JIJI

The Liberal Democratic Party will set up a team to examine the postwar occupation of Japan by the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces (GHQ), and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, an LDP executive said Thursday.

“There are calls within our party for scrutinizing developments during the Occupation period, including the process of drawing up the current Constitution,” Tomomi Inada, chief of the ruling party’s Policy Research Council, said at a news conference.

“We have no intention . . . to deny the results of the trials,” Inada stressed. “But the rulings include faulty views on history and therefore should be scrutinized.”

The new body is expected to be launched after the LDP’s special committee for restoring Japan’s honor and international trust releases its recommendations possibly later this month.

At a meeting on Thursday, members of the committee called for revising the 1993 apology statement issued by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono on the “comfort women,” Japan’s euphemism for the tens of thousands of Korean and other females forced to provide sex to Imperial Japanese soldiers before and during the war.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is slated to issue a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the war’s end in August. South Korea is urging Abe to fully uphold the 1993 statement, which expressed Japan’s “sincere apologies and remorse” to all comfort women.

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  • Max Erimo

    So am I to understand that The Abe Government is to use tax payers money to set up a committee to officially sanitize the parts of history that we already know it doesn’t like.

    This is on top of the ‘special committee aimed at restoring Japan’s honor and international trust in the country’ which one would assume won’t suggest that to restore international trust Japan must squarely face up to its past.
    This is enjoyable to watch. It just keeps on coming and allows the Govt to distract the population from the real problems facing them today.

    • Revelation

      Indeed, because nothing says official like excessive amounts of money tossed at a ridiculous cause that doesn’t benefit anyone but the bigwigs.

      I also can’t help but raise a brow at how this is supposed to restore Japan’s so-called “honor” when, internationally, most nations that know better will only further scrutinize Japan for scrutinizing what we already know to be true. Attempting to further warp the truth is only going to make the Japanese government look worse; I so wish they would wake up and realize that.

  • Paul Johnny Lynn

    Buy stocks in whitewash, now!

  • JusenkyoGuide

    Oh this is gonna be good. I wanna see how furiously they try to tap dance around the Treaty of San Francisco that states point blank Japan accepts the judgments of the tribunal while claiming they are false…

  • blimp

    Inada is the lady that was noted for being photographed with certain extreme right elements some time ago. (I actually wrote “got in trouble” first, but then again she never did, did she?)

  • J.P. Bunny

    “…..faulty views on history and therefore should be scrutinized.” Funny how Abe and his ilk don’t like it when other countries have the same thoughts in regard to Japan. More tax money being used to restore Japan’s honor and international trust? Do these people ever listen to their own moronic statements?

  • zer0_0zor0

    “There are calls within our party for scrutinizing developments during the Occupation period, including the process of drawing up the current Constitution”

    It’s part and parcel of a larger game plan…

  • Liars N. Fools

    So what does America and Obama intend to do? Obama essentially gave full rein to Abe Shinzo to essentially gloss over his revisionism without calling him out. Many Japan hands outside of the beltway “experts” in thrall to or “supported” (paid) to the Japanese conservatives had warned that eventually Abe who is totally against the “post-war regime” would show his anti-American colors. But Obama now has been enlisted by Abe to confront China, and Obama has no room to stand up against a revisionism that is ultimately aimed at the victor of the war against the Imperial Japan that Abe loves so much.

    Will we see the moral Obama or the craven Obama?