"Reviewing the record of Abe Shinzo's 'statesman' grandfather reveals much about the personal motivations of Japan's new prime minister. In a rarely noted parallel to Abe's current push for "history textbook revision" [meaning the silencing of dissent] the government his grandfather headed, concerned 'that the teachers were too sympathetic to communism,' introduced 'legislation to force public schools to provide moral education and to implement a system to evaluate the teachers.'" Read his report here/ここです. ここに、日本の右翼再起上にさらに幾つかの記事があります。

www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct06/Salzberg02.htm



Meanwhile, lots of other articles on how history and current events are being manipulated by the resurgent rightwing while the media is asleep on the job:

History Redux: Japan's Textbook Battle Reignites
www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp107.html

Shinzo Abe, the good, the bad and the ugly
mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060923p2a00m0na038000c.html

自民党のGENDER ポリシー
www.jimin.jp/jimin/info/gender/jender.html

U.S. Neo-Conservatives Call For Japanese Nukes,U.S. Neo-Conservatives Call For Japanese Nukes, Regime Change in North Korea
japanfocus.org/products/details/2249

The North Korean Problem, Japan and the US: The Politics of Hypocrisy
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm

Japan Focus section on Asia and nuclear weapons
japanfocus.org/products/index/category_id/159/subcategory_id/225

We invite readers to translate some of these articles into Japanese.