Regarding Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reset of history’s perspective on who was the aggressor in World War II (“One Man’s Invasion Is . . . ,” Review & Outlook, April 27), I believe we can solve two problems at once. Let’s get Richard Falk (Notable & Quotable, April 23), a special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council and professor emeritus at Princeton, to address Mr. Abe. Since Mr. Falk recently said that terrorist acts like the Boston bombing were an understandable result of what he describes as the “American global domination project,” it would be curious to see where he comes down on Japan’s actions leading up to and during World War II. Surely Mr. Falk must see that Japan was equally as aggressive, if not more so, than this country during the American domination project he alleges. This would take care of Mr. Abe’s ridiculous historic revisionism.
Perhaps as a bonus, Mr. Falk might even be able to differentiate the brute aggression for territorial gain that was practiced by Japan in World War II against the freedom and prosperity agenda that the U.S. has enacted since that war.
Two for the price of one.
