Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Monday, March 16, 2015

Japan's Orwellian Politics About Ukraine - Washington's Blog

Yukio Hatayama, who during 2009 and 2010 had been the first and only non-LDP, or non-one-party-state, Prime Minister of Japan (and he was then quickly ousted by the LDP), said in Crimea on Tuesday, March 10th, that Japan should not be so totally controlled by the U.S. Government, and that, “It’s shameful that information from Japanese and Western media is one-sided.” Hatayama also praised “the happy, peaceful life in Crimea,” as opposed to the war-torn and economically collapsing Ukraine, which the IMF, EU and especially the U.S., keep lending money to pay Ukraine to bomb the residents in Ukraine’s strongly anti-fascist eastern area.

Japan’s LDP Foreign Minister, Fumio Kishida, promptly dismissed the Hatayama statement by saying that it came from a “gaffe-prone” man. Telling the truth is a ‘gaffe.’

Mitsuhiro Kimura, leader of another small anti-U.S.-control-of-Japan party, travelled with Hatayama, and supported this initiative for increasing trade and cultural exchanges with Crimea and with Russia generally. He said that this visit was “historic,” and that “Maybe it will give us a chance to influence Japan’s foreign policies and change them.”

The Agence France Presse report on this event referred to Kimura’s party as “the right-wing political group Issuikai,” implicitly suggesting thereby that opposition to U.S. control of Japan is “right-wing.” This propaganda effort aimed to insinuate that since the U.S. had defeated the fascist Government of Japan in 1945, the LDP, which the U.S. installed in Japan post-War, can only be the opposite of fascist.

Complete story at - Japan's Orwellian Politics About Ukraine Washington's Blog

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Sunday, May 4, 2014

U.S. Officials Back Abe’s Military Push - Japan Real Time - WSJ

The U.S. on Monday endorsed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s effort to expand the role of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, saying it would help the U.S.-Japan alliance keep the peace in the Asia-Pacific region.

The statements came ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to Japan from Wednesday to Friday.

Mr. Abe has expressed a desire to reinterpret Japan’s constitution and permit the country to exercise its right of “collective self-defense,” meaning Japan could assist allies in a conflict even if it wasn’t directly attacked.

In Washington, Pentagon officials have encouraged such efforts, arguing that Tokyo needs to do more to balance China’s investment in its armed forces.

Complete story at - U.S. Officials Back Abe’s Military Push - Japan Real Time - WSJ

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