raise hackles

WSJ Japan blogに下村文相が取り上げられています。実際には選挙前に行われたインタビューですが、新内閣の哲学の一端が垣間見られる気がします。

hacklesは動物が怒りをあらわにするときの「逆毛」を意味しますが、そこから、「激怒、かんしゃく」をあらわします。raise hacklesとはなるほどうまい表現です。（UG）

Magazine Interview Shows LDP’s Nationalist Side

Since coming to power in December, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet have tread lightly in dealing with Japan’s neighbors, China and South Korea, despite harboring nationalistic views about Japan’s wartime past that typically raise hackles in Asia. Yet an interview with the man Mr. Abe last week tapped as education minister, given a few months before the mid-December general election, shows just how nationalist some in Mr. Abe’s party are, even
if the administration has proceeded cautiously so far.

“Once we recapture political power through a general election, we intend to construct a genuinely conservative administration,” said soon-to-be education minister Hakubun Shimomura in an October interview for the December issue of the monthly magazine Apple Town. “Such an administration has only existed for about three years since the war,” he said.

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/12/30/magazine-interview-shows-ldps-nationalist-side/