Late Night Ignoring Asia

Yes, it's late night here in the land of the setting sun. So what's happening? 

Toru Hashimoto apologized for getting caught for saying what he really believes.  That whatever you may have read in your history books it's all a lie.

 Hashimoto issued the apology hours after he was due to meet two former “comfort women”, but the elderly South Korean women cancelled over fears of becoming political pawns in a long-running row that has stoked tensions between Tokyo and Seoul.“It is a shame that I couldn’t meet them—I wanted to tell them I am sorry for this misunderstanding,” Hashimoto told a press conference. “I hurt them with my words, so it’s natural that I want to apologize.”
Hashimoto told reporters later Friday that the cancellation was “very unfortunate” but that he respects their feelings. He said he had hoped to show his sympathy over their wartime sufferings as sex slaves.

Shinzo Abe hasn't moved into the official residence provided for the Prime Minister.  Some say he's afraid of Ghost's. So you gonna call? 

  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet on Friday formally denied months-long rumors that the premier had not moved into his official residence over fears the mansion is haunted.Abe took office in December but has yet to move into the 11-room brick home in central Tokyo, the longest holdout among any of his predecessors, according to local media.
Several former prime ministers have reported experiencing unusual phenomena at the mansion which was center-stage for two failed but bloody coups in the 1930s.

In Japan where confrontation is unwelcome the media helps out by ignoring the xenophobia that runs rampent through a large portions of Japanese society.

The territorial disputes between Japan and its nearest neighbors over the islands of Takeshima (Dokdo in Korean) and the Senkakus (Diaoyu in Chinese) have gradually faded from the front pages; but this does not necessarily mean there have been no repercussions.
Accumulated resentment on both sides serve as a constant irritant, making it easier for conflicts to spill over into other areas. The recent uproar on the issue of wartime sex slaves (“comfort women”) did not occur in a vacuum, but needs to be taken in the context of these kinds of sporadic flareups of nationalistic sentiments.
The phenomenon of increasingly noisy demonstrations against Koreans residing in Japan by members of right-wing groups — after festering for several years mostly on alternative news sites on the Internet — is finally attracting the notice of the mainstream print media, and Diet members have even begun to discuss the possibility of drafting a new law banning inflammatory “hate speech.”