Japanese foreign policy  Down-turn Abe  The country’s
dangerously nationalistic new cabinet is the last thing Asia
needs  See article  Readers' comments   David McNeill  Very
interesting comments, I disagree with most of them. Many
Economist readers will surely agree that Japan should, as one
comment said, be a "normal" country with a proper military,
patriotism in schools and all the rest of it. Abe would build
all that on sand: hiding Japan's wartime past and denying well-
documented atrocities. There is simply no way Japan can move
forward with its Asian neighbors on that basis. I also,
obviously, don't agree that Japanese are inherently 'fascist',
nor that their vote for right-wing parties in the Dec.16
election proves it. The millions of people who voted for
Restoration want a strong economy, decentralized, less
bureaucratic govt., a leader who says what he thinks and does
what he says. There is little evidence they voted for them
because they want war with China. Nobody is defending Chinese
censorship, o