Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara is a gracious host, settling comfortably into a white leather chair and patiently listening to a question from a visitor.
Then he opens his mouth, launching into a tirade.
China is "very dangerous," he thunders. Japan's critics are "just jealous." Tokyo's bloody conquests of the 1930s and '40s saved Asia from colonization by "white people."
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