
The countries in the first tier are China, India, and Indonesia, with important economic, military, and political ties to Russia. Japan is viewed as a basket case obsessed with territorial disputes, and an unproductive economic partner. There was speculation that Putin would visit Japan soon, but he decided to visit Israel and Syria instead.
There are already appeals against the Yasukuni ruling, a court case against visits by Koizumi and Tokyo Gov Shintaro Ishihara to the Imperial war Shrine which holds A class War criminals
He has already made many controlversial remarks, Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara has slammed gender free education policies, labeling them "ludicrous" and "grotesque" and accusing their advocates of being "sorry people with weakened sensibilities."Ishihara also used a Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education meeting to laud Japan's World War II kamikaze suicide pilots.He also spoke out strongly on behalf of respecting Japan's controversial national flag and anthem, which many leftist educators despise, saying they are symbols of the country's military aggression."Kimigayo," the national anthem, and the Hinomaru Rising Sun flag "present us with a great opportunity to consider our ultimate responsibilities in a human society where membership of a state or a race is inevitable," the governor told. Gov Ishihara hails kamikaze sex, Gov. Shintaro Ishihara has slammed gender free education policies, labeling ... their advocates of being "sorry people with weakened sensibilities." Recently a court rejected women's suit over Ishihara for calling them old b*tches, and said he had told they don't deserve to live after reproduction age