Krisenregion Ostasien - Unterhauswahl in Japan

The Abe Cabinet - An Ideological Breakdown

Jan. 28, 2013

Children and Textbooks Japan Network 21
Translation and explanations of Diet groups by Matthew Penney

“Children and Textbooks Japan Network 21” is a NGO formed in 1998 to resist historical revisionism and fight the removal of material critical of Japan’s war record from textbooks.
PM Abe and other LDP members tend to present a moderate “economy first” face on television and during election campaigns. In order to spread awareness of some of the extreme ideas held by key conservatives and the changes that they wish to make to Japanese education and ideas of citizenship, Network 21 has prepared a list of the various Diet groups to which members of the current Abe Cabinet belong. Following the list is description and discussion of the Diet groups and their key positions on such issues as Constitutional revision, Yasukuni Shrime, war responsibility and war atrocities, the comfort women, North Korea, and citizenship that clarify the core political principles of the Abe administration.