Abe Aide Told to Delete Video Criticizing U.S. Over Shrine Issue

[bananas]

Source: Bloomberg

An aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was instructed to delete a video in which he expressed disappointment over the U.S. reaction to the Japanese premier’s December visit to a Tokyo war shrine.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo he had directed Seiichi Eto, a member of the upper house of parliament and a special adviser to the prime minister, to delete the video from YouTube because it expressed a personal view rather than the government position.

The U.S. embassy last year issued a statement saying the government was “disappointed” by Abe paying his respects at the Yasukuni Shrine on Dec. 26, adding his action would “exacerbate tensions with Japan’s neighbors.” Animosity with China and South Korea over separate territorial disputes was worsened by Abe’s visit to the shrine, which is seen by many in both countries as a symbol of Japan’s past militarism.

“America said it was disappointed, but we are the ones who are disappointed they said that,” Eto said in a video posted to YouTube on Feb. 16. “Why doesn’t America value its ally Japan?”

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Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-19/japan-says-abe-aide-s-disappointment-with-u-s-not-official-view.html

[davidpdx]

1. Maybe it's because people in your part act and say stupid things

Japanese Neocons=American Neocons

[Nanjing to Seoul]

2. These people are amazing. They insult Korea and China, then act like this when called on their

denial, revisionist bullshit.