In the entrance hall of Tokyo’s Yushukan war museum, a temple to Japanese revisionism, the first thing you notice is the dark green livery of the legendary Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter aircraft, in its day the world’s most advanced carrier-based fighter. More manoeuvrable than the British Spitfire and with an astonishingly long range, it greatly aided Japan’s war effort before the Allies developed the technology and tactics to beat it. Deployed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, three years later, when Japan’s defeat had become inevitable, the Zero was being sent out on desperate kamikaze missions.
东京靖国神社内的战争博物馆——游就馆(Yushukan)是日本修正主义的神社。走进游就馆的大门，你首先注意到的就是具有传奇色彩的零式战斗机——这种暗绿色涂装的战斗机当年是世界上最先进的舰载战斗机。零式战斗机比英国喷火战斗机(Spitfire)操纵性能更好，而且作战半径长得惊人，在盟军发展出相应的技术和战术之前，它极大地帮助了日本的战争努力。1941年，零式战斗机投入日本对珍珠港的突袭，三年后日本战败已成定局时，这种战机被用于“神风”自杀式攻击。