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GeoWilliam750

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1. And he is a Catholic as well
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 05:37 AM
Aug 2017

Last edited Wed Aug 30, 2017, 07:36 AM - Edit history (2)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%C5%8D_As%C5%8D

Quite the colorful biography.

Also not the first time he has expressed admiration for the Nazis

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/02/world/asia/japan-politician-nazi-comment/index.html

And how Prisoners of War in slave labor conditions thanked the Aso company after the war for working there.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2007/05/29/issues/aso-minings-pow-labor-the-evidence/#.WaagcygjGUk

His extended family and the family of Shinzo Abe have controlled Japan for about a third to half of Japan's postwar period, and much of the pre-war period.
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