Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated, and high-level officials such as the chief of the National Police Agency resigned. Photo: Taken from the Prime Minister’s official residence (file photo)
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on July 8, and several senior police officers resigned. Akio Yaita, director of the Taipei branch of Japan’s “Sankei Shimbun”, said that if something goes wrong, the person concerned will take responsibility. This is Japan’s traditional “blame culture”, which is still going on. But he has been in China for more than 20 years and has seen various government inaction. The tragedy caused, but I have never heard of any Chinese officials taking the blame and resigning.
Akio Yaita posted on Facebook that Shinzo Abe was assassinated, and one and a half months later, Nakamura, the chief of the Japanese National Police Agency, Sakurazawa Kenichi, the chief of the National Police Agency, and the Nara Prefecture police chief, Onizuka Yusho, wrote a detailed investigation report on the incident. And put forward suggestions for the improvement of important people in Wei’an in the future, and submitted their resignation together.
“This approach is very ‘Japanese’.” He believes that the police in charge of security indeed bear a very large responsibility for Abe’s assassination, including the lack of staffing; the negligence of the security personnel at the scene caused a gap in Abe’s back; the murderer In the blank time between the two shots, the security personnel did not respond immediately.
Akio Yaita bluntly said that the three people who resigned this time, Chief Nakamura and Chief Sakurazawa have just been in office for 10 months, and Chief Onizuka Nara just took office in March this year. It is unfair to hold these three people responsible.
“But once something goes wrong, the person involved should take responsibility. It is a traditional Japanese culture.” He gave an example. When Japan announced its surrender at the end of World War II, Minister of War Anan Yuji wrote a suicide note saying “death for the sin” and then committed suicide by cutting his belly. He believes that Japan’s defeat is not Anan’s responsibility at all. More than 70 years have passed since the war, and Japan’s culture of taking blame is still continuing. What is more worrying is that in the bureaucracy, following someone resigns, the problem still does not improve.
Compared with China, Akio Yaita said that he still prefers the traditional Bushido spirit. “I have been interviewing China for more than 20 years, and I have seen all kinds of tragedies caused by the government’s inaction. I only heard that some people were dismissed on the spot. , I’ve never heard of any Chinese officials taking the blame and resigning.”
