Lowering the Bar

I was formatting some material in double columns (Japanese and English side by side) for easy comparison and thought to include PM Abe’s October 2014 address to the International Bar Association. Which meant reading it.

Two interesting points:

First, he seems to say that the rule of law is expressed in Asia as the mandate of heaven and then invokes the people who overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate (the established govt at the time) as an example of the rule of law in action in Japan.
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Second, in saying that war and colonialism were generally accepted well into the 20th century and it was only in mid-century that war came to be condemned, he seems to be rejecting the Tokyo Tribunal. After all, if war and colonialism were okay at the time, what Japan did was in line with generally accepted norms and it was only later that the rules were changed and retroactively applied.

This man is seriously delusional.

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