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Cricky
It was cringe worthy watching people make speeches to a huge photo. But as a way to funnel tax payer funds to Nippon Kaigi through a commemoration, have to admit moral adaptability was definitely on display.
Aly Rustom
Disgusting. Why couldn't his family pay for it like other citizens?? Its not like THEY don't have the money.
Why the HELL should it cost THAT much?? And why should the public have to pay for it??
BertieWooster
And, of course, the other thing Ex-Prime Minister Nakasone will be remembered for is his WWII invention of "comfort stations," where "comfort women" entertained the troops.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/01/national/media-national/uncomfortable-truth-comfort-women/
Yubaru
What's this difference? When the "state" is controlled and run by the LDP. they are the same, and they just used Suga's slush fund!
drlucifer
The people deserve what they are getting over and over and over again.
voiceofokinawa
As far as I can remember, Nakasone was the very prime minister who let the USFJ use Japanese soil more freely as U.S. bases, boasting Japan was an unsinkable aircraft carrier; started to build nuclear power plants all over Japan, eventually leading to the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
In other words, under the Nakasone government, Japan increased its color more as a U.S. vassal. It’s from the perspectives of the U.S. side that one may be able to say the Japan-U.S. alliance has strengthened under Nakasone.