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Sat 03 Mar 2007Japanese prime minister plays nationalist cardJAPAN:Shinzo Abe is unleashing the historical deniers and whitewashers of Japan's wartime past, writes David McNeillin JapanOne of the Japanese TV networks recently pointed out that some of prime minister Shinzo Abe's ministers no longer stand up when he walks into the cabinet meeting room. Even worse, fumed one observer, they keep chatting as he tries to start the meeting.