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Could Hosokawa Morihiro's political comeback restore sanity to Japanese politics?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Sven Saaler
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In the upcoming Tokyo gubernatorial elections, Hosokawa Morihiro could make an astonishing comeback more than a quarter of a century after retiring as Prime Minister. Mainstream and independent media have generally stressed his opposition to nuclear power and his support for green energy alternatives, in contrast to the national government of Abe Shinzō. However, Abe and Hosokawa also represent different poles in another controversial field of politics – the politics of memory including the fraught question of apologies for war and the regional and global implications of their respective stances.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , January 2014 , e2
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1 Rekishi Kentō Iinkai [History Examination Committee] (ed.): Daitōa Sensō no Sōkatsu [Summary of the Greater East Asian War]. Tōkyō: Tentensha, 1995, p. 443.

2 Ibid., 11, 308 etc.

3 Ibid., 62-67.

4 Sven Saaler, Politics, Memory and Public Opinion: The History Textbook Controversy and Japanese Society, Munich: Iudicium, 2005.

5 On this issue, see Tessa Morris-Suzuki, “Japan's ‘Comfort Women’: It's time for the truth (in the ordinary, everyday sense of the word),” Asia-Pacific Journal.