It's like the police have all of that specialized equipment and really wanted to use it, but couldn't help but be shamed into politeness when the guy came out.
Here's their party leader speaking in regards to a visit by Abe to Yasakuni Shrine:
Shii said the Yasukuni question essentially arises from the fact that the shrine has a mission to glorify Japan’s past war of aggression as “a war for self-defense” and “a holy war to liberate Asia” and to propagate such an ideology.
“We have repeatedly pointed out that the prime minister’s visit to the shrine amounts to giving the government approval to Yasukuni’s position. Making an offering to Yasukuni has the same implication,” Shii stressed.
You can go here and search by history to find more articles. They definitely aren't apologists for Japanese colonialism. I didn't find anything about reparations though, and they do get pretty pearl clutching on North Korea and China.
They applauded the dissolution of the USSR, they're kind of cringe
What CCP? Communist Party of China? I know Deng and the rest hated most of what came after Stalin so it wouldnt surprise me if they said it was doing communism badly. Still a very different context of a Western Communist Party denouncing it at all.
CPC did far more than just say words to contribute to the fall of the USSR
their mascots are cute, but nothing else I've read has been very promising
No they're succdems but with communist asthetics.
Literally if DSA and CPUSA merged into CPDSA, but with weeb idol culture cringe
I for one welcome out communist tertiary Pokémon character overlords
