(August 7, 2016 at 1:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: None of that addresses my point, which is that using Soryu for a submarine, or other WWII names for other ships, is not evidence of resurgent militarism.
These names are definitely used more often and more freely since the late 1980s. Coupled with visits to Yusukuni shrine, government mandated revision of textbooks to gloss over Japan's role in WWII, and the efforts to reinterpret the legal framework imposed at the end of WWII as a bulwark against militarism, the whole certain suggest a systematic effort to condition the Japanese public to revile militarism less, and accept it more.
