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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You are all talking about Abe's assassination, but forgetting this happened

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That act weakened the Japanese Socialist party (center-left), emboldened the far-right, caused copycats and ensured the current party stayed in power for most of the twentieth century.

That's not to say that Asanuma was a scummy maoist and had forced his party to support the terrible war in Asia.