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“I see the public opposition to Abe’s state funeral as a reflection of the divisive nature of his legacy,” Ben Ascione, assistant professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Japan’s Waseda University, says. “Another way of looking at it is that anxieties over the rise of China, and the need to develop responses to that today, did not translate into broader public acceptance of Abe’s historical revisionism and denialism of Japan’s imperial and colonial transgressions.“ Abe’s push to bolster defence spending and support for changes to Japan’s post-war constitution, to enable it to play a more active role...
