Those who invoke “learning from Germany” overlook a crucial lesson: Germans do not portray their nation as a low-civility state before the UN. This essay contrasts domestic realities with international posturing.

2016-03-18

Japan has nothing to learn from Germany—except for one thing: those who keep saying “learn from Germany” are the ones who should be learning.

Search for Germany’s NPD.

The NPD is not some group so small that no one even knows where it exists, nor is it a number too trivial to mention. It is a legitimate political party. There is no real difference between what they say and what the people referred to in the Diet by figures such as Yoshifu Arita are saying.

But even so, have the German people gone to the United Nations to tattle as if that represented the true state of their country—claiming that Germany is a nation of low civic standards where human rights violations run rampant?