Shan ram is firm with tobias harri, author of the iconoclas cinzo abe and the new japan. Tobias as stolen, a bit of a state shock that i think i'm still working through, to be honest. The whole thing's extra shocking because japan has of the strictest gun control laws in the world,. unlike some countries, not atona, guns. And a little ironic, if we're being real, because shinzo abe's whole thing was beefing up japan's militaryt nomy, which it lost after world war too.
The assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe may have given his agenda to militarize Japan new life. Abe biographer Tobias Harris explains.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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