TOKYO -- The ordinary session of Japan's parliament, which has been preoccupied with the new coronavirus outbreak, closed on Wednesday without extending its session. Coincidentally, it was about sixty years ago that Japan was in the midst of another crisis, this one concerning the Diet's approval of the revised Japan-U. S. security treaty.
The amendment of the treaty, into which then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi -- grandfather of the current premier Shinzo Abe -- put his whole soul, was a product of the Cold War between the U.S. and now-defunct Soviet Union.
