TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claimed his push to beef up Japan’s military in the face of public and parliamentary opposition would be vindicated by history.
Abe, who is being assailed for security Bills that opponents say will drag Tokyo into American wars, invoked his grandfather, former premier Nobusuke Kishi – who was arrested, but never charged, for war crimes – as a man who had been proved right by the passage of time.
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