My exposure to the Japanese right came in the early 1990’s, when I was on a couple of panels in Japan with Watanabe Soichi, who was selected by my Japanese publisher (unbeknownst to me) to translate my book The End of History and the Last Man into Japanese. Watanabe, a professor at Sophia University, was a collaborator of Shintaro Ishihara, the nationalist politician who wrote The Japan That Can Say No and is now the governor of Tokyo.
我在二十世纪九十年代早期同日本右翼打过交道，当时我和渡边素一在日本参加了两次电视讨论节目。渡边当时被我的日本发行商在我不知情的情况下挑选来担任我的著作《历史的终结和最后一个人》日文版的翻译。他是日本上智大学的教授，是石原慎太郎（民族主义政治家，《日本可以说不》的作者，现在是东京都知事）的合作者。