Japan Prime Minister Requests ASEAN Nations to Lift Food Import Ban

The way Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing with arrogance Fukushima contaminated produce to Japan’s neighbor nations is no surprise, we can see the influence of his grandfather in the Prime Minister’s own outlook.

The grandfather of current Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was as a Class-A war criminal. Nobusuke Kishi, who served for three years as a senior official in the Manchukuo puppet government installed in Shenyang following the invasion. Kishi was initially charged with war crimes but was subsequently cleared of the charges by a Tokyo tribunal. He later rejoined politics and went on to become Prime Minister in 1957.

Mr. Abe is a “revisionist” bent upon denying wartime history, and also rewriting Japan’s pacifist Constitution and reviving militarism.

Mr. Abe, a Conservative politician who took office in December 2012, is attempting to rewrite history and downplay atrocities. Mr. Abe recently angered both China and South Korea – which also faced Japanese occupation – by becoming the first Japanese leader in seven years to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, which honours Japan’s civilian war-dead but also enshrines 14 Class-A war criminals, including officials behind the Nanking massacre.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/abes-grandfather-shown-as-war-criminal/article5584542.ece

Japan has requested ASEAN nations to lift the ban on food import from the country, which was introduced after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.

MANILA (Sputnik) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his opening remarks at the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) Commemorative Summit in Manila on Tuesday requested ASEAN nations to lift the ban on food import from the country.

“Incidentally, it has been six years since the Great East Japan Earthquake. I strongly request that import controls on Japanese food to be lifted, based on scientific grounds,” Abe said.

The Japanese prime minister added that Japan would start rice deliveries to Laos and Myanmar again through the APT Emergency Rice Reserve Agreement.

Following the devastating Fukushima nuclear accident caused by a massive earthquake in 2011, many countries around the world, including ASEAN nations, introduced various import restrictions on food produced in certain Japanese prefectures. Some countries have eased such restrictions in recent years.

During his previous remarks at APT summits in recent years, Abe brought up the issue of easing import restrictions on food produced in Japan consistently.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/201711141059072470-japan-asean-food-import-ban/

November 14, 2017 - Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2017 | Contaminated Foods, Fukushima Contamination, Japan Food Exports, PM Abe

3 Comments »

Shinzo Abe needs to be rejected. Don’t change Japan’s constitution as it is now. I don’t want japan to be like they were. I like the peacful japan like they are now. Shinzo Abe wants japan to f go awhoring after false god of war. It is better to have a peacful mind and die that a violent one when you die. The mind is what is saved, That kind, rational, peacful mind will get a new body.

Comment by artiewhitefox | November 14, 2017 | Reply
Shinzo Abe needs to be rejected. I don’t want japan to be like they were. I like the peacful japan like they are now. Shinzo Abe wants japan to go awhoring after false god of war. It is better to have a peacful mind and die than have a violent mind when you die. The mind is what is saved, That kind, rational, peacful mind will get a new body. Shinzo Abe does not care about anyone wanting people to consume food that has radiation in it.

Comment by artiewhitefox | November 14, 2017 | Reply
Thanks, dunrenard – for coming back to give this website your valuable insights, and essential news.

Comment by Christina MacPherson | November 14, 2017 | Reply