Japan Right mobilizes for Yasukuni

Brad Mayer bradley.mayer at ebay.sun.com
Tue Aug 7 08:28:46 PDT 2001


Pardon for the appearance of self-indulgence in "responding" to my own post, but a key element was neglected in this highly significant symbolic event planned for August 15th (the date of Imperial Japan's WW2 surrender).

Which is, that it is no accident that the Japanese Right chose August 6th, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, to post their Yasukuni "unity" advertisement. The Right has always shamelessly exploited a dangerously exclusive sense of victimhood as cover for it's own responsibility for the atrocities, both incendiary and atomic, actually committed by the US, due to its needless prolongation of a hopelessly lost war. It would seem that holocausts of all sorts are a last refuge for righists.

-Brad Mayer



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