What Nanjing Massacre?
The governor said that the Nanjing Massacre, in which hundreds of thousands of Chinese were slaughtered by Japanese troops in the 1930s, never happened. Shintaro Ishihara also visits Yasakuni Shrine, where Class A War Criminals are among the war dead honoured, “to express my respect and condolences for the war dead”, to use the governor’s words. He told a unit of Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force, “Atrocious crimes have been committed again and again by sangokujin and other foreigners. We can expect them to riot in the event of a disastrous earthquake.” “Sangokujin” is a derogatory term describing residents from the former Japanese colonies of Taiwan and Korea. A Vote Is A Vote Of course the Tokyo Governor is not the only racist in the world. However, rather paradoxically, what is alarming is that Japan is a democracy. Shintaro Ishihara was re-elected for a second term in 2003. He earned some 70% of the votes. Of course, it may be unfair to accuse that Tokyo voters choose Shintaro Ish
