Right-Wing Japan Relives 19th Century
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Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s leaders just can’t seem toput the 19th century behind them.
It may be 2012, and the world surrounding this islandnation of 126 million is changing at a blistering pace, butJapanese officialdom seems oddly stuck in the late 1800s. Backthen, reformers adopted the slogan “rich nation, strong army.”This rabid nationalism culminated, of course, in World War IIand a crushing defeat.