Japan’s security bills trigger ‘war’ jitters

THE passage by the lower house of the Japanese Diet of the highly unpopular security-related measures could lead to Japan becoming embroiled in a new war, according to the New York Times International Weekly.

An editorial in the July 27 issue of the NYT International Weekly said that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who rammed the measures in the lower house, is already being held in suspicion by many people in Japan and in the region “because of his appeals to Japan’s right-wing nationalists and because of doubts about whether he genuinely acknowledges and regrets Japan’s wartime aggression.”