With her glasses and her updo, and her sharp conservative views, Tomomi Inada ( https://i.imgur.com/b2KxGcT.jpg ) has sometimes been called “Japan’s Sarah Palin.” This week, she will have a chance to present herself as a statesman in Washington. And official Washington will have a chance, in turn, to get a good look at the woman who could become Japan’s next prime minister.Perhaps that's why Abe sought to avoid a new flap involving Defense Minister Tomomi Inada ( https://i.imgur.com/yHVvQYV.jpg ) on Monday by sending her 6,000 miles away. While two Cabinet ministers and dozens of conservative leaders visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine to mark the 71st anniversary of the end of World War II, Inada was inspecting Japanese troops at a remote air base in the Horn of Africa. Newly appointed Defense Minister Tomomi Inada ( https://i.imgur.com/b2KxGcT.jpg ) on Thursday refused to clarify her position on sensitive historical issues, insisting she is “not in a position” to express her views on Japan’s wars against China and
609 名前：the Allied powers in the 1930s and ’40s. Lawyer-turned-politician Tomomi Inada, 65 ( https://i.imgur.com/b2KxGcT.jpg ), was formerly policy chief of Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and shares his hawkish views on Japan's 20th-century history. []
The Guardian Friday 6 January 2017 The statue was initially removed after being set up by South Korean activists in the southern port city. 銅像は当初、韓国南の港町に建てられた後に撤去された。 But local authorities changed track and allowed it after Japan’s hawkish defence minister offered prayers at a controversial war shrine in Tokyo last week. しかし日本のタカ派の防衛相・稲田朋美が論争の的である東京の戦争神社を先週訪問した後、地元当局は設置を容認した。 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/06/japan-says-recalling-envoy-to-skorea-over-new-comfort-woman-statue
The Times January 7 2017, 12:01am When the new statue was erected by a campaigning group on December 29, it was initially removed by the Busan city authorities. 活動家グループによって最初に銅像が建てられた昨年12月29日、釜山市はこれを撤去した。 They allowed it to be installed after a visit by Tomomi Inada, Japan’s defence minister, to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo. 日本の稲田朋美防衛相が非難を浴びる靖国神社を訪問した後、釜山市は設置を容認した。 www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/japan-furious-at-memorial-to-sex-slaves-q9xp7c2kh
WSJ Updated Jan. 6, 2017 2:04 p.m. ET A day before the new statue’s erection, Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted war criminals. （釜山の）新しい銅像が建てられる前日、日本の稲田朋美防衛省は東京の靖国神社を訪問した。靖国神社は戦争犯罪人を含む戦死者を讃える場所だ。 www.wsj.com/articles/japan-pulls-diplomats-from-south-korea-over-comfort-women-statue-1483678744
Stars and Stripes (米国防総省公認ニュースメディア) January 6, 2017 Japanese politicians have also made antagonistic moves recently. Defense Minister Tomomi Inada last week visited a Tokyo shrine seen by South Korea and China in particular as a symbol of her nation's wartime atrocities. South Korea's defense ministry said the move
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NYT JAN. 6, 2017 The local government immediately removed it, saying it had been placed there without permission, but bowed to public pressure two days later and allowed it to be put back. 自治体は無許可の設置という理由ですぐに撤去したが、２日後には人々に謝罪して再設置を許可した。 A visit that week by Japan’s defense minister, Tomomi Inada, to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which commemorates a number of convicted war criminals along with Japan’s other war dead, had deepened resentments in South Korea. 同じ週には日本の防衛相・稲田朋美が戦死者と大勢の戦争犯罪人を記念する靖国神社を訪問し、韓国の怒りをいっそう増幅させていた。 www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/no-closure-on-the-comfort-women.html
The New Indian Express 06th January 2017 But local authorities changed tack and did not stop the activists from putting it back after Japan's hawkish defence minister Tomomi Inada offered prayers at a controversial war shrine in Tokyo last week. しかし日本の稲田朋美防衛相が批判の多い東京の戦争神社で祈祷した後、地元当局は活動家らの再設置を止めなかった。 Inada's visit last Thursday to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honours millions of mostly Japanese war dead -- but also senior military and political figures convicted of war crimes -- drew harsh criticism in South Korea as well as China. 日本の戦死者に加えて戦争犯罪で有罪を宣告された軍及び政府高官を称える靖国神社への稲田の訪問は、中国と同様に韓国でも激しい批判を招いている。 www.newindianexpress.com/world/2017/jan/06/japan-recalls-envoy-to-south-korea-over-new-comfort-woman-statue-1556734--1.html
Bloomberg January 5, 2017 Japanese politicians have also made antagonistic moves recently. Defense Minister Tomomi Inada last week visited a Tokyo shrine seen by South Korea and China in particular as a symbol of her nation’s wartime atrocities. South Korea’s defense ministry said the move “embellishes” Japan’s aggression in the past and its colonization of Korea. 日本の政治家も最近また（慰安婦像と同様に）逆行する動きをしている。稲田朋美防衛相は先週、中韓が日本による戦時中の残虐行為の象徴だとみなす 東京の神社を訪問した。韓国の防衛相はこうした動きを日本による過去の侵略及び朝鮮の植民地化を美化していると述べている。 https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-06/japan-suspends-forex-swap-talks-with-south-korea-over-statue
France 24 2017-01-06 But local authorities changed tack and did not stop the activists from putting it back after Japan's hawkish defence minister Tomomi Inada offered prayers at a controversial war shrine in Tokyo last week. しかし日本の稲田朋美防衛相が批判の多い東京の戦争神社で祈祷した後、地元当局は活動家らの再設置を止めなかった。 Inada's visit last Thursday to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honours millions of mostly Japanese war dead -- but also senior military and political figures convicted of war crimes -- drew harsh criticism in South Korea as well as China. 日本の戦死者に加えて戦争犯罪で有罪を宣告された軍及び政府高官を称える靖国神社への稲田の訪問は、中国と同様に韓国でも激しい批判を招いている。 www.france24.com/en/20170106-japan-recalls-south-korea-envoy-over-comfort-woman-statue
