Tarō Asō

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Taro Aso.

Tarō Asō (麻生太郎) (1940–) is Japan's former prime minister (92^nd) and current deputy prime minister. (The Prime Minister is Shinzō Abe.) He is notorious for openly praising the Japanese Empire and defending Nazi Germany.

He defended the Nazis in Germany for revising the constitution of the Weimar Republic and insisted that Japan should also learn that trick.^[1]

He praised Hitler for having the "right motive". He said, "The massacres were wrong," but he also made many neo-fascist remarks.^[2] In addition, he made absurd remarks that a "Burakumin cannot be prime minister." and he said, "How long will you stay alive?" to the elderly people who were over 90 years old.

Shinzō Abe is a very far-right politician, but he tempers his words and actions, but in comparison Asō is as outspoken as Donald Trump. (and It also belongs to a more extreme rightist faction than Abe in the LDP when it comes to political leanings alone.)

According to Condoleezza Rice's memoir, Asō said regarding World War II, "If the war had been a little longer, Germany, Italy and Japan would have won."

References

↑ Japan Deputy PM Taro Aso retracts Nazi comments. BBC.
↑ Japanese minister Taro Aso praises Hitler, saying he had 'right motives'. The Guardian.

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[1] Japan Deputy PM Taro Aso retracts Nazi comments. BBC.

[2] Japanese minister Taro Aso praises Hitler, saying he had 'right motives'. The Guardian.

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