The Spiegel didn't have much good to say about Abe either. The first article on their front page (when news of his death became known) was not a nice obituary.

The Spiegel didn't have much good to say about Abe either. The first article on their front page (when news of his death became known) was not a nice obituary. It might also reflect the huge gap between the way Germany responded to WWII and the way Japan did. https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/shinz-abe-nachruf-der-japanische-populist-a-a465786b-1ebd-45f1-9aa8-48063543e78f https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/shinz-abe-nachruf-der-japanis...