Defence policy move by conservative PM Shinzo Abe raises fears young Japanese will again be sent to fight overseas.
WHEN Takeshi Ishida was drafted into the Japanese military in 1943, he believed he was fighting a just war to liberate Asia from Western colonialism. It was only after taking part in daily exercises in which he was trained to kill that Ishida began to question Japanese militarism.
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