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Asia's Glass Houses; Japan may have problems facing its historical crimes. But so do most of its angry neighbors.
Byline: Phil Deans (Deans is a professor of international relations and director of research at Temple University's Japan campus.)
It may seem strange that Japan's imperial past still makes headlines. But the debate over history in Asia has much to do with the present. Revisionists who dispute Japan's wartime responsibility have a contemporary agenda: they seek to revise Japan's pacifist Constitution to enable a more aggressive foreign policy and to improve Japan's place in the world.
These attempts, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's prevarications on the comfort-women question, have understandably made Japan's neighbors nervous. But few of Tokyo's Asian ...
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