Japan’s prime minister appears to be stepping up his campaign to reinterpret Japan’s wartime history, aggravating China and South Korea at a time when the region should be uniting to deal with North Korea. “This has always been the real Abe,” said Robert Dujarric of Temple University, Japan Campus. “He really believes this stuff, and when he is not under the control of his bureaucrats, like during this week’s parliamentary session, he says what he thinks. And he doesn’t seem to realize how much he is hurting Japan.