In July 2016, following a landslide Liberal Democratic Party victory in Japan’s Upper House elections, the conservative American magazine National Review published an article titled ‘Japan Reverts to Fascism.’ The article rightly points out that Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and most of his cabinet were members of the radically conservative Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference), which…

Since 2015, Nakatani Tōichi has been publicising the details of his brother Sakatarō’s death during the Korean War. Following WW2, Japan was occupied and formally demilitarised by the US – the new constitution, enacted in 1947, includes Article 9, which forbids Japan from waging war or maintaining a military. The onset of war in Korea,…