Japanese Human Rights Activist Blasts Head of Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation

Normally I would shout "congratulations" from the rooftops at the news: The momentous appointment of a non-Japanese to be director of an important Japanese institution.
Particularly when said institution is tasked with keeping the faith on with an important international issue–one the GOJ brings up constantly in its untiring quest for uniqueness in the world stage ("the only country in history ever bombed by nuclear weapons"). As well as for world peace.
But Steven Leeper, the newly-appointed director of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation is proving to be a historical curator with an odd attitude not only towards history, but also towards non-Japanese in Japan (a category he still falls into, of course).

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