"The reason I speak of a boycott is because of the recent football games, and the trouble that was caused on that occasion," Mr Ishihara said in his 45-storey headquarters in Tokyo. "I think that the Olympics in Beijing have the same significance in international politics as Hitler's Olympics in Berlin in 1936. It was a demonstration against the background of military power. Beijing is hoping to show the same kind of posture." Mr Ishihara has also been a vocal champion of Japan's ownership of islands known as the Senkaku in Japanese and as the Diaoyu in China. "I would have Japanese soldiers stationed there, or Japanese residents living there, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs prohibits this," he said. "If there is a flashpoint there, I would not hesitate to fight a minor war to protect our own territory -like you did in the Falkland Islands." ※The Times 原文から引用