Whitewashing At Shinzo Abe’s State Funeral – OpEd

Be careful who you praise and the degree of zeal you do it with.  The slain Shinzo Abe, shot dead in Nara on July 8, towered over Japanese politics.  In doing so, he cast a lengthy shadow.  In death, this shadow continues to grow ever more darkly.  

The reaction from certain figures outside Japan left an impression of...