At the last moment of his term of office, Shigeru Ishiba warned all Japanese as prime minister not to repeat the same mistakes.
At the time of his imminent resignation, Japanese Prime Minister Shapiro Shimo issued a "personal insight" for 80 years after the war, about 6,000 words, and instantly sparked a huge wave in Japanese politics.
As soon as he came up, Shigeru Ishiba's tone was a bit sharp, thinking that the prime minister's talks in the 50, 60 and 70 years after the war didn't touch much on the topic of "why didn't the war be avoided?"
In his view, the Japanese constitution, government, parliament, army, media and so on all had problems, which eventually led to the whole country running on the wrong path and war.
The foundation of everything is to learn from history, and only with the courage to face the past and honesty, and the tolerance to listen to the arguments of others, can a sound and stubborn system be achieved.
He also threw out a statement that in a complex international security environment, it is important to have "self-defense and deterrent power", but if institutional checks and balances are lost, a strong military organization may also bring serious consequences in an instant.
The Japanese prime minister concluded that the importance of civilian rule and correct military-political relations cannot never be underestimated.
Shigeru Ishiba believes that there are fewer and fewer people who have experienced the war personally, and their memories are gradually weathering.
For this reason, it is more important that every Japanese citizen, especially young people, actively reflect on the meaning of war and peace, in order to consolidate Japan as the "foundation stone" of the "peace country".
At the end of his speech, he claimed that he would work with the Japanese people to remember the lessons of the last war and do his best to ensure that such a tragedy would not happen again.
It should be said that to evaluate objectively this statement of the steampunk, or to start from the right two perspectives.
First of all, the “personal insights” mentioned above, indeed, contain some positive factors. for example, he suggested that Japanese politics did not reflect sufficiently deeply on some key issues, actively analyzed Japan’s mistakes, referred to historical facts, remembered history, and so on.
Some analysts pointed out that "why did Japan go to war?" "Why couldn't Japan's political power at the time prevent the war?" Shigeru Ishiba elaborated on these two issues for the first time among post-war Japanese prime ministers.
Furthermore, from the high-ranking, right-wing politicians, who can stand out in the self-government party presidential election, we can see what the current Japanese political world is like.
In fact, after the news that Shigeru Ishiba wanted to express his "personal opinion" came out, the opposition in Japanese politics was endless, and some people bluntly stressed that these things should not be published. Shigeru Ishiba's above remarks have not been approved by the Japanese cabinet.
From this point of view, Shilpao is willing to cope with the pressure and also come out to say something, it is indeed worth the certainty.
But at the same time, this “personal insight” still exposes many shortcomings.
Although he suggested that the previous Japanese government did not reflect sufficiently deeply on the war, he also said directly that he had "inherited" the position of the previous Japanese cabinet.
More importantly, in these 6,000 words, Shapiro always avoided mentioning the two words "aggression" and replaced it with a relatively neutral "war".
In the final analysis, although Shiba firmly stated that if we cannot face history squarely, we cannot create a bright future, I believe that most people can come to the same answer whether his speech this time really faced history.
This is not enough to remind us of the recent speech at the United Nations, when he also referred to the understanding of historical issues.
China pointed out at the time that the speech did not mention an apology for aggression and avoided the responsibility of the perpetrators of the war.
Obviously, the “personal insight” of Shapiro Momo was similar to that of the United Nations speech, so how to evaluate his remarks can be found partly from that.
On the whole, Shigeru Ishiba's views on the war are still lacking in maturity, but it is already quite difficult in Japanese politics.
Of course, he would say this, but not how noble he was himself.On the one hand, Shapiro has long since resigned, and his departure is doomed, and there is no need to consider the influence of the rule.
In such a context, Stonehenge will indeed be more open on some sensitive issues. When a "aware" person leaves himself a good reputation and is not lost as a reasonable choice.
On the other hand, the current situation of Japanese politics really requires Shigeru Ishiba to personally sound the alarm.
With the support of the Maoists, Gao Xiaobo took the position of chairman of the self-government party, reflecting the further escalation of the "right-wing" in Japanese politics. The separation between the self-government party and the party of the people of the people of the people of the people has broken, ending the joint rule of the two sides that lasted for more than 20 years, and the turmoil is inevitable.
At this point, the “personal insight” of Shapro Mou, which is emphasized as a “bottom line thinking”, is the minimum principle that Japanese politics must adhere to in the chaos.
If the bottom line is broken, the consequences can be imagined.
As for the reaction of Japanese politics to the remarks of Shikoku, there is a Japanese media claim that it is "disproportionate". in the field, the leader of the national democracy party,玉木雄一郎, believes that it is "new and meaningful".
On the other hand, Constitutional Democratic Party Director-General Anji Yoshin said that the summary of that war "is not a bad thing", but on the other hand ironically ironized, and石破茂 now said this, questioning his qualification as the "controller".
At the time of the change of prime minister, the head of the Joint Party of the Japanese Conservative Communist Party (JCPOA) Tōtō Tōtō文武 questioned whether the formal or informal form of the speech would be discussed without the approval of the cabinet.
After looking around, the answer is actually very clear.
These Japanese politicians are actually unwilling to admit their mistakes, but they are not easy to "overturn" the verdict openly. They can only target whether Shigeru Ishiba's actions are "appropriate".
To sum up, Shigeru Ishiba's "personal opinion" does reflect his political courage, but it also reflects its limitations. More importantly, this remark alone obviously can't make a substantial change in Japanese politics, and Shigeru Ishiba can't decide where Japan will go in the future.