In the English-language newspapers of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, there are some articles on Japanese Imperial Household. People are interesting in the news of Japanese royal family. However, they do not discuss on the emperor’s war responsibility and the emperor system itself, although most of these countries were occupied by Japan during the “Greater East Asia War” in 1941–45. This is the same trend not only in ASEAN countries but also in China and South Korea. When Akihito visited the Philippines as the crown prince in 1962 and as the emperor of Japan in 2016, Filipinos did not discuss on them. I tried to find the reasons in the English-language newspapers of the Philippines, but I could not find them.
This is a supplement for my book titled Gurobaruka-suru Yasukuni Mondai: Tonan-Ajia kara no Toi(Globalizing Yasukuni Controversy: From the Perspectives of Southeast Asia) published by Iwanami Shoten in 2018.
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