>>What is the point then ? Can you be a little more specific ? Personnaly I
>>don't think what Tim wrote is missing any point. Well, maybe calling the US
>>support to fascists a counter-revolution is a little too much since there was
>>no revolution going on at this time
>
>Fascist counter-revolutions produce fascist regimes. Japan since
>World War II has not been a fascist regime. As a society and a
>polity Japan has many flaws, but they should not lead one to ignore
>that Japan is the most developed and most prosperous (save perhaps
>for Singapore) society in Asia, and the most democratic.
So democratic & devoted to freedom of speech & thought that old men from the old militarist regime have been able to prosper in public life, including in the highest positions of the government.... Who is to say that militarists should be excluded from public life? There is no room for political correctness in liberal democracy! Prosperity has made up for the de facto one-party state in the minds of most Japanese voters till now, but the decade-long decline, which may very well continue in the near future, may lead to a polity without _any_ redeeming feature.
Yoshie