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田母神論文に対するワシントンポスト紙の報道。
Ousted Japanese General Defends Comments About WWII
Washington Post Tuesday, November 11, 2008; 2:22 PM
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（抜粋）The affair of the noisily unapologetic general, whose views echo those of many prominent nationalists
in Japan, is turning into a substantial political liability for Prime Minister Taro Aso, who must call a general
election in less than a year.
Before he became prime minister in September, Aso, 68, an elder in the ruling party, had made a series of
statements that suggested his nationalist leanings. He upset the governments of North and South Korea
by praising his country's 35-year colonial occupation of their peninsula, saying Japan did many good things there.
As foreign minister in 2006, Aso annoyed China by suggesting that Japan's emperor should visit Yasukuni,
the shrine in Tokyo where convicted war criminals are honored along with 2 1/2 million war dead.
言うまでも無く、海外では日本の「保守派」などという表現はすでに使われていない。
安倍や産経新聞に代表される勢力を「民族主義者」「国粋主義者」「差別主義者」
「歴史歪曲主義者」「極右」「ネオナチ」など明確な単語を使って表現している。