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27.02.2007, 13:01
Minister's human rights rant shocks Japan
Japan's education minister has stunned the country with a gaffe-strewn speech in which he claimed that too much emphasis has been put on human rights.
Bunmei Ibuki, 69, also said that Western-style individualism is damaging Japan, while he praised Japan's racial homogeneity and appeared to denigrate minorities.
Japanese newspapers reported yesterday that Mr Ibuki, a veteran politician who worked at the Japanese embassy in London for four years in the 1960s, implied in his speech in Nagasaki that problems with Japan's education policy stemmed from the fact that it was imposed by the US occupation authorities after the Second World War.
"Japan has stressed the individual point of view too much," he said. He also argued that a society gorged on human rights was like a person with an obesity-related illness.
ganzer Artikel (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/27/wjapan27.xml)
Recht hat der Mann!
Japan's education minister has stunned the country with a gaffe-strewn speech in which he claimed that too much emphasis has been put on human rights.
Bunmei Ibuki, 69, also said that Western-style individualism is damaging Japan, while he praised Japan's racial homogeneity and appeared to denigrate minorities.
Japanese newspapers reported yesterday that Mr Ibuki, a veteran politician who worked at the Japanese embassy in London for four years in the 1960s, implied in his speech in Nagasaki that problems with Japan's education policy stemmed from the fact that it was imposed by the US occupation authorities after the Second World War.
"Japan has stressed the individual point of view too much," he said. He also argued that a society gorged on human rights was like a person with an obesity-related illness.
ganzer Artikel (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/27/wjapan27.xml)
Recht hat der Mann!