Panel praises Japan's postwar economy before Abe speaks

Shinzo Abe, right, poses as he receives a 38-page report from Taizo Nishimuro, center, chairman of the Japanese government's advisory panel on the history of the 20th century and on Japan's role and the world order in the 21st century

Wow, 38 pages long? I can't imagine the all-nighters and lost weekends that were needed to put together this comprehensive volume of postwar Japanese history.

Ya think they are going to say anything different? It was Abe who commissioned the panel right?

Was that a waste of taxpayers money to form a panel to do research and praising the Abe administration for glooming Mr. Abe achieved ? I think the people who dont mind and dont read carefully all the 38 pages. The contents were predicted.

Japan post war economic recovery is remarkable, but from the last 20 years it is stagnant and still there is no real effort to recover the Japan economic glory, on the political side Japan could have a better relation with the neighbours but so for there is no progress. Japan needs a brave leader/statesman who could think beyond the popularity aspect, who can take brave decision for the future of Japan .

Japan post war economic recovery is remarkable, but from the last 20 years it is stagnant and still there is no real effort to recover the Japan economic glory,

The last 20 years have been stagnant because the people who make the wheels turn are still stuck in post-war thinking that those methods that worked then will continue to work today, throw public money at the problem, have a robotic-like work force, and never talk back to the folks in charge.

All methods that worked in an assembly line economy that no longer exists in Japan.

I don't think Japan's relations with China and Korea were really bad as it is reported. It is the governments of China and Korea which intentionally created crises for their political purposes. Their attitudes to Japan are changing when they are facing economical problems.

"But the report, which acknowledges Japan’s past aggression and expansionism as wrong decisions made by the military..blah, blah, blah..."

....fully sanctioned by 昭和天皇 Hirohito...if there was ever a war criminal....

W.Edward Deming

They always seem to leave out this guy:

Deming is best known for his work in Japan after WWII, particularly his work with the leaders of Japanese industry. That work began in August 1950 at the Hakone Convention Center in Tokyo when Deming delivered a seminal speech on what he called Statistical Product Quality Administration. Many in Japan credit Deming as the inspiration for what has become known as the Japanese post-war economic miracle of 1950 to 1960, when Japan rose from the ashes of war to become the second most powerful economy in the world in less than a decade founded on the ideas Deming taught:[4]

A government panel commissioned by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

A panel Abe commissioned praises Abe? Seriously how fake is this panel in its conclusion and this "news" article about it? Did Abe "advice" NHK to say this? What a waste of tax payers money.

A special report compiled by 16 "experts" over many months to "advise" Abe what to say. And they even have a public "Handing over of the Report Ceremony"

It's just too pathetic to be laughable.

How about the learned Abe just speaking from his own heart, his own thoughts, his own words to convey his own sentiments. Can't the leader of a great country think for himself?

No, it is laughable.

Don't forget the man who invented the Japanese Economic Miracle, W. Edward Deming.

What a waste of tax payers money.

@Kenny Iyekawa

A head of state sanctioning a war is not a war crime. A head of state sanctioning an attack on a civilian target however is.

I've never heard of any records of Hirohito commanding the army to go rape Nanjing. Its beyond doubt that Truman ordered the A-bombs.

"if there was ever a war criminal...." I kno rite? That Truman dude XD

Self congratulatory, self praise report to buttress himself.

@F4HA604 "A head of state sanctioning an attack on a civilian target however is."

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes >.... note the very first paragraph and footnotes/sources.

Everyone agrees with everyone else, they all listened carefully to Abe, so I doubt anything is going to change. Just another meeting of the mutual admiration society.

Japan post war economic recovery is remarkable, but from the last 20 years it is stagnant and still there is no real effort to recover the Japan economic glory,

Blame it all on their old-fashioned, outdated, micro-managing customs and japanese society as whole unwilling for little change and or innovation.

Got to change with contemporary times. The sooner japan learns this, the better.