Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Japan's Ultra-Nationalists Live On

The world, it seems, cannot yet rid itself of neo-nazies, ultra-nationalists in Japan and Russia, or various fundamentalist crazies. Let's hope that election of Senator Obama to US Presidency begins to point toward a new direction for the global society.
clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

Japan's pacifism 'needs revision'




Gen Toshio Tamogami - Pic Australian Defence Department
Gen Toshio Tamogami has rekindled a long-running row


Japan's former air force chief has said the country should revise its pacifist constitution.

Gen Toshio Tamogami, recently sacked for denying that Japan was an aggressor in World War II, was giving evidence to a parliamentary enquiry.

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