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By Bal(t)imoron, 2 months and 7 days ago

Another Crazed WW2 Throwback Found in the Japanese Air Force

Japan's prime minister, Taro Aso, has honed his «pragmatic» creds by firing Air Force Chief of Staff, General Toshio Tamogami.

Tamogami said in the essay that Japan's military actions in China were based on treaties, and that the Korean peninsula under Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule «was prosperous and safe.»

He argued that Japan was drawn into World War Two by then U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he said was being manipulated by the Comintern, the international communist organization founded in Moscow in 1919.

Tamogami also rejected the verdicts of an Allied tribunal which convicted Japanese wartime leaders as war criminals after Tokyo's defeat in 1945.

Will Beijing and Seoul cut Aso some slack, or pile on?

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