Last January Mr. Abe’s government sought to pressure McGraw Hill publishers into forcing an American professor to delete references to Japan’s use of Korean girls as “comfort women,” enslaved prostitutes for the Japanese military. Mr. Abe and his administration also deny or ignore Japan’s involvement with the 1937 Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, the factory of death known as Unit 731 and an array of other atrocities. This “forward-thinking” prime minister honored Japanese war criminals by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, paying respects to the likes of Gen. Iwane Matsui, who led the massacre in Nanking.