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August 15 marks the 77th anniversary of Japan's defeat. According to Kyodo News Agency, according to relevant sources, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio presented "jade string materials" (sacrifice fees) to the Yasukuni Shrine at his own expense through his own office on the morning of the 15th as president of the Liberal Democratic Party. On the morning of the same day, many Japanese politicians, including Sanae Takashi, the current Cabinet Minister of State, visited the Yasukuni Shrine, which is the third consecutive year that Japanese cabinet officials have visited the Yasukuni Shrine on August 15. As early as August 13, Japan's new Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Yasunori Nishimura, visited the Yasukuni Shrine, the first minister in kishida's cabinet to pay homage to the Yasukuni Shrine.
Takashi Sanae is a far-right Politician in Japan who regularly visits the Yasukuni Shrine and earlier this month sent out several tweets on the Taiwan issue; Nishimura Yasuori was previously criticized by Japanese netizens for publishing "Pictures of Beautiful Women from All Over the World" on his personal website, and he was also exposed by a Japanese magazine 9 years ago to take the escort girl back to the hotel for the night scandal in Vietnam.
Yasukori Nishimura visits the Yasukuni Shrine (Source: Sankei Shimbun)
A female politician with a lot of black history
The 61-year-old Takashi Sanae, the minister of economic security in the new Kishida cabinet, was seen as the second-in-command in the cabinet because he was sitting on the left side of Kishida Fumio when he appeared in the new Kishida cabinet.
According to Takashi Sanae's resume, she was born in Nara, Japan in 1961 and graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration of Kobe University in March 1984. In 2006, after the establishment of the first Abe regime, Takashi Sanae entered the cabinet for the first time as a special minister of the Cabinet Office. In 2012, after the establishment of the second Abe regime, Takashi Wasome was appointed chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party and Government. In 2014, when Abe's cabinet was remodeled, Takashi Sanae was Japan's first female minister of general affairs and communications. According to the Taiwan media "Newspaper", Takaichi Sanae had the experience of 9 house members of the House of Representatives and was the beloved general of the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Takashi Sanae has visited the Yasukuni Shrine several times, and has set a record, as she was the only cabinet member of Abe's first cabinet to visit the Yasukuni Shrine.
On September 8 last year, Takashi Hayanae announced her candidacy for the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election, when Japanese media reported that she had the support of Shinzo Abe. According to Hong Kong's AsiaWeek, Takashi Sanae's campaign is to promote the "Early Seedling Economics" policy of inheriting "Abenomics" and resist China's technological threats.
Takashi Sanae, who is seen as a member of the nationalist faction within the Liberal Democratic Party, advocated amending Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, renaming the Self-Defense Forces to the "Japan National Defense Forces," and claiming that it was an individual's freedom to visit the Yasukuni Shrine. Some media have revealed that Takashi Sanae met with Kazunari Yamada, the leader of the neo-Nazi group "National Socialist Workers' Party", in 2011, and a group photo of the meeting was circulated on the Internet. Yamada praised the 9/11 terrorist attacks, openly promoted Hitler's extreme ideas, and denied the Nazi Holocaust, while at the same time advocating "to maintain a homogeneous Japanese society" and other racist political views that affirmed national purification.
According to Shangguan News, Takashi Sanae was an extreme right-wing politician who denied the Nanjing Massacre and the comfort women, and falsely called the Japanese invasion of China a "war of self-defense." When she ran for the head of the Liberal Democratic Party, some media said that the Liberal Democratic Party would have a majority in the House of Representatives without incident, and if Takashi Sanae successfully ran, she would become Japan's first female prime minister. Takashi Sanae also said wildly that after being elected prime minister, he would continue to pay homage to the Yasukuni Shrine.
On the Taiwan issue, the early seedlings of Gaoshi frequently arched fire.
Takashi Sanae visits Yasukuni Shrine (Image: NTV)
On September 20 last year, Takashi Sanae tweeted that online talks were held with Tsai Ing-wen on security and other issues through an interpreter on the same day, and Tsai Ing-wen also forwarded the tweet, claiming that she was "looking forward to deepening exchanges between Taiwan and Japan." In an interview with the Sankei Shimbun, she had said she was very eager to meet with Tsai Ing-wen.
On August 5 this year, she also tweeted that China had fired five missiles into Japan's exclusive economic zone in one day, saying that this was a very bad and dangerous act. She also quoted Shinzo Abe's outrageous remark that "if there is something in Taiwan, there is something wrong with Japan", and said that considering the distance from Naguni Island and Taiwan, if "there is a problem in Taiwan", Japan will definitely be involved in the war zone.
Two-time scandal-exposed "Future Star"
Born in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, 1 year younger than Sanae Takaichi, Nishimura graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo in 1985.
Nishimura yasushi belonged to the Abe faction, the largest faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, and served as a cabinet minister during both the Shinzo Abe government and the Suga government. On October 4 last year, Suga resigned at an interim cabinet meeting, and Nishimura resigned as minister of Economic Regeneration. On August 10 this year, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reorganized the cabinet and Yasuho Nishimura became Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Just three days after Nishimura took office, he visited the Yasukuni Shrine and became the first kishida cabinet member to "worship ghosts.". On August 13 last year, Nishimura yasuori visited the Yasukuni Shrine.
As early as June 2013, Yasuho Nishimura, who was then regarded as the LDP's "future star," was exposed to a scandal by a Japanese magazine. According to Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper, Yasunori Nishimura, then 50, was exposed by a Japanese magazine that he went to a nightclub in Vietnam in 2012 to hang out, and then took seven escort girls back to the presidential suite of a five-star hotel. Three of them eventually stayed, and Nishimura paid about $600 to the three. According to a reporter's investigation, 2 escort girls confirmed that they had engaged in sex transactions with Nishimura Yasushi, and hotel employees also confirmed that there were multiple women who spent the night in Nishimura Yasushi's room.
In response to the above reports, Nishimura admitted that he had visited Vietnam, but denied visiting nightclubs, bringing escort girls back to their homes, conducting sex transactions and paying prostitutes, and said that he would not resign from his position in the cabinet office.
In June this year, Nishimura Yasunori was exposed to another scandal.
According to Japan's "Mainichi Shimbun" reported on June 4, Nishimura Yasunori's personal website began to publish "Pictures of Beautiful Women from All Over the World" with photos of women from various countries more than 10 years ago, and was widely criticized by Japanese netizens. According to the report, starting around 2008, Nishimura posted photos of women from various countries on his personal website under the title of "Picture Book of Beautiful Women from All Over the World". Before Nishimura deleted the photo, the Daily News reporter found that one of the earliest photos of a Belgian woman was taken and uploaded in 2008.
The incident attracted criticism from Japanese netizens. Some netizens criticized Nishimura Yasuori for taking taxpayers' money to travel abroad and shoot beautiful women; Some netizens also criticized Nishimura Yasushi's move as discriminatory against women. Under pressure from online public opinion, Nishimura deleted the photo and apologized to the public.
Kishida government wants to include defense costs as "necessary"
In the August 10 cabinet reshuffle, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio once again appointed Yasuichi Hamada as defense minister. At the end of July this year, Hedan Yasuichi just visited the mainland's Taiwan region and said that he would exchange views with the Taiwan authorities on the "regional security situation." The relevant Departments in Taiwan welcomed it, which was ridiculed by netizens on the island.
Yasuichi Hamada (Infographic)
According to Japan's Kyodo News Agency, in the face of revisions such as the National Security Strategy at the end of the year and the preparation of the 2023 budget, Kishida Fumio is interested in The rich experience of Yasuichi Hamada. Conservatives in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) demanded numerical targets around the increase in defense costs, while Kishida Fumio's position was to attach importance to including the necessary amounts, and Koichi Hamada's idea was considered similar to That of Kishida Fumio.
According to reports, both Yasuichi Hamada and Fumio Kishida were elected for the first time in the 1993 House of Representatives elections. Yasuichi Hamada served as vice-minister of state affairs and deputy chief of the Japanese Defense Agency, head of the Liberal Democratic Party's Defense Group, and in 2008 became minister of defense in the Aso cabinet. In addition, he and Shunichi Suzuki, the Minister of Finance in charge of budgeting, have been cooperating for many years in the revitalization of aquatic products and have established a relationship of trust. There are also voices in the defense province that welcome him, believing that he is a "strong negotiator" for the increase in defense costs. Kishida offered anticipation to Yasuichi Hamada at an Aug. 10 news conference, adding: "He is familiar with security and defense policies. I hope to be able to play a strong leadership role. ”
In Japan's fiscal 2022 budget, defense spending is about 5.4 trillion yen (about 272.7 billion yuan), accounting for about 1% of gross domestic product (GDP). In April, the LDP put together a proposal to consider making defense spending more than 2% of GDP, proposing that the defense force should be completely strengthened within five years, and also wrote it into the campaign promise of the July Senate election.
The reason behind this is that Abe has repeatedly mentioned "2% GDP" in his speech, advocating a substantial increase. However, in the LDP's intra-party discussions, Takeshi Iwaya, a former defense minister, and others opposed the "preset numerical target" and advocated the inclusion of the necessary amount. It is said that Koichi Hamada also expressed understanding of the proposition, saying at the press conference he took office on the 10th: "It will be effectively included in the necessary items." ”
(Source: Jimu News)
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