He is, like many other Japanese, hell bent on rewriting Japanese history with a positive spin, completely ignoring or at best downplaying their colonisation atrocities before and during WW2. Wasn't he the one who went to a shrine to a "WW2 hero" who also just happened to be a war criminal?
Historic revisionism is an apt description, not a "buzzword".
Historic revisionism is an apt description, not a "buzzword".