One week after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled his Cabinet with an eye to the future, the past is coming back to haunt him: Revelations of controversial past statements and actions by his newly appointed ministers are drawing criticism abroad. In a photo that appeared ...
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Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is trying to distance the government from recent right-wing comments on World War II, calling them “regrettable” and saying they don’t represent the Abe administration’s views.
Calls in the Diet for legislation to curb hate speech targeting foreign residents of Japan are being made even as the issue barely registers on the campaign trail for the July 21 Upper House poll.
