Japan`s new defense minister a blast from the past
(WorldNews Japan)

WeChat ban in US may be suspended after legal challenge Japan`s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has selected Nobuo Kishi as his minister of defense. Kishi is former prime minister Shinzo Abe`s younger brother, adopted by the Kishi family to maintain the line. Newly appointed Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi delivers a speech during a press conference at the prime minister`s office in Tokyo on September 16. Photo: AFP / Charly Triballeau Abe`s grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, had a long career as an infamous official in Imperial Japan`s colony of Manchukuo (Manchuria). An accused but never tried war criminal, released from prison to cooperate with the US Occupation at the beginning of...