Taking the Country Back

Prime Minister was on television this evening telling the party faithful (1) progress has been made on taking the country back [日本を取り戻す] and (2) a lot of the criticism of his “the constitution means whatever I want it to mean” policies is criticism for the sake of criticism [批判の為の批判].

Taking the country back? From whom? The facile answer is “taking the reins of government back from the opposition parties.” But that’s not the real answer. Because this is all tied up with his historical revisionism and desire to shatter what he calls “the postwar regime,” it has to be about the old-guard demolishing postwar-regime thinking, which postwar thinking includes, for example, Article 9 of the Constitution. He is after a basic change in Japan’s political philosophy — a reversion to the prewar regime with its top-down, お国のため thinking, and its many anti-democratic elements. In short, he wants to take the country back from the people.

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Both of these are the hallmarks of a man hellbent on making his mark on history — and both bode ill for Japan’s, and the world’s, future if he succeeds.

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