The Abe administration is rushing to amend pieces of security-related legislation and expand the scope of Self-Defense Forces' activities overseas.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is eager to change the nature of postwar Japan — which has been characterized as a pacifist nation or even as a merchant country — and join the ranks of samurai warriors in the international community. But other countries would not take Japan seriously and would not allow it to be a member of their group if it merely asks to join the "samurai" ranks so that it can use force overseas. Therefore, Japan would need a good cause to do so. That is the background as to why this administration talks much more about values than its predecessors.
Massacres, liquidation of political enemies or dissenters, and discrimination by those in power as done in the past are repudiated as absolute evil today.