Shintaro Ishihara, the former governor of Tokyo, recently unveiled a new political party which, he says, will help build a “stronger and tougher Japan”. This is the same Shintaro Ishihara who recently provoked an increasingly bitter row with China over control of a string of islands in the East China Sea. As Mr Ishihara and other leading Japanese politicians strike a more strident foreign policy tone and a more aggressive attitude toward China, they should consider the recent history of a quite different country in a quite different region.
前東京都知事石原慎太郎(Shintaro Ishihara)最近組建新政黨,他說該黨的宗旨是建立起“更強大、更強硬的日本”。正是這位石原慎太郎今年引發了日中圍繞東海一個群島控制權的日趨激烈的爭執。在石原慎太郎和日本其他重量級政客奉行更加尖銳的外交政策,對中國采取更加咄咄逼人的態度之際,他們應當考慮近年另一個地區另一個國家的遭遇。