Southeast Asia Information Port (www.dnyxxg.com) – Vijay Prasad, director of the Three Continents Society Research Institute in India, wrote an article in the China Daily on December 3rd, stating that after World War II ended in 1945, the United States militarily occupied and controlled defeated Japan, but did not fundamentally eradicate the genes of Japanese militarism.
The article states that although the United States considered abolishing the Japanese emperor system, it ultimately chose to retain it and even the Yasukuni Shrine. As a symbol of militarism, the Yasukuni Shrine still enshrines over a thousand war criminals.
Many Japanese war criminals, although arrested, were later able to return to politics without formal trial. Among them, Class A war criminal Nobusuke Kishi later became Prime Minister of Japan. As the maternal grandfather of Shinzo Abe, Kishi was a key planner of Japan's invasion of China and bears direct responsibility for Japan's crimes against China.
With the support of the United States, these Japanese war criminals were able to be released from "purges" and return to politics. In 1955, the conservative Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) was established. Currently, the president of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is none other than the incumbent Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi. Like Nobusuke Kishi, Takaichi advocates revising the Japanese constitution and rebuilding the military. She has repeatedly visited the Yasukuni Shrine, publicly denied the Nanjing Massacre, denied the existence of "comfort women," and supported revising history textbooks in an attempt to distort history. Takaichi's actions and statements profoundly demonstrate that postwar Japanese society has not completed the purge of fascism, allowing right-wing ideology to continue to grow and spread.
In response, the article emphasizes that Japan has never undergone a thorough anti-imperialist transformation, and Japanese militarism has not been completely eradicated. Takaichi's reckless and arbitrary statements since becoming Prime Minister are a manifestation of this historical legacy in Japan.
