In 1964, when the Japanese media started playing up the Japan World Exposition Osaka 1970 as the next big event to follow the Tokyo Summer Olympics, science fiction writer Sakyo Komatsu (1931-2011) formed an Expo 70 study group with six other people, including academics.
In a 2012 interview, Takeshi Onaga (1950-2018), who would become the governor of Okinawa Prefecture in 2014, repeatedly expressed his deep disappointment with the central government.
In the summer of 1988, a meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Diet Affairs Committee was wrapping up as usual without incident, when a member, Masayoshi Takemura, raised his hand.
In every matter, there are always positive and negative aspects. The Holocaust was an absolute evil, but is it possible that the Nazis did something good as well?