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Unusually Massive Protests Erupt in Japan Against Forthcoming "War Legislation"
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
In case you aren’t up to speed on your Japanese history, the nation’s post WWII Constitution prohibits military action unless it’s in self-defense. Clearly a sensible approach, which is why the current Japanese government, led by the demonstrably insane and incompetent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wants to get rid of it.
This story is very important. Not only will this action increase the likelihood of World War III in the Far East, but it’s another important example of a government acting against the will of the people.
Polling has indicated the Japanese public is against a pivot toward militarization and war, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing forward nonetheless. In fact, the current legislation to allow overseas military intervention has already passed the lower house of government. This prompted many Japanese to emerge from their decades long political apathy and get out into the streets. It’s estimated these protests were the largest in recent memory.
The AP reports:
TOKYO (AP) — Mothers holding their children’s hands stood in the sprinkling rain, some carrying anti-war placards, while students chanted slogans to the beat of a drum against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his defense policies.
Japan is seeing new faces join the ranks of protesters typically made up of labor union members and graying leftist activists. Tens of thousands filled the streets outside Tokyo’s parliament on Sunday to rally against security legislation expected to pass in September.
“No to war legislation!” “Scrap the bills now!” and “Abe, quit!” they chanted in one of the biggest protests in recent memory. The bills would expand Japan’s military role under a reinterpretation of the country’s war-renouncing constitution.
In Japan, where people generally don’t express political views in public, such rallies have largely diminished since often-violent student protests in the 1960s.
The demonstrations started earlier this year and grew sharply after July, when Abe’s ruling coalition pushed the legislation through the more powerful lower house despite polls showing a majority of Japanese were opposed.
Just like in Greece, the Japanese public is rapidly being forced to come to grips with the fact that their opinions don’t matter and they are politically irrelevant. Of course, this is also the case in these United States. Recall: New Report from Princeton and Northwestern Proves It: The U.S. is an Oligarchy
A group called Mothers Against War started in July and gained supporters rapidly via Facebook. It collected nearly 20,000 signatures of people opposed to the legislation which representatives tried unsuccessfully to submit to Abe’s office last Thursday.
The security bills would permit the military to engage in combat for the first time since World War II in cases of “collective defense,” when Japan’s allies such as the U.S. are attacked, but Japan itself is not.
Abe’s government argues that the changes are needed for Japan to respond to a harsher security environment, including a more assertive China and growing terrorist threats, and to fulfill expectations that it will contribute more to global peacekeeping.
…and to distract a disillusioned population from the disastrous economic policies of its government. Recall from earlier this year:
and…
The Stock Market Myth and How the Japanese Middle Class is on the Precipice Thanks to Abenomics
The topic has become almost a regular item in women’s magazines, traditionally known more for covering entertainment, beauty, health, food and the Imperial family.
Takashi Watanabe, a deputy editor-in-chief of Shukan Josei (Ladies Weekly), said there has been a growing appetite for social issues among readers, especially since Fukushima.
This is a great sign for Japan. However, when will Americans emerge from their political slumber? Will it take several decades of economic decay such as in Japan?
About half a century ago, 300,000 students, many of them Marxist ideologues, staged violent protests, repeatedly clashing with police, over revising the U.S.-Japan security treaty. Those protests played a role in driving Abe’s grandfather, then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, out of office after his government approved the revision.
Apparently, they love failed political dynasties in Japan as well.
“I’m afraid the legislation is really going to reverse the direction of this country, where pacifism was our pride,” said a 44-year-old architect who joined Sunday’s rally with her 5-year-old son. “I feel our voices are neglected by the Abe government.”
You’re not the only one…
Of course, when it comes to Japan this has been a long time coming. Recall the following published in 2013:
War on Democracy: Spain and Japan Move to Criminalize Protests
How Japan’s “Stealth Constitution” Destroys Civil Rights and Sets the Stage for Dictatorship
Democracy is dead. Globally. If we fail to bring it back, history will see us as one of the most inept and spineless generations in history.
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No Comfort (Korean/Chinese/European) Women this time around? Hell, no. I would oppose the war bill too.
Honest Abe would do well to stay out of theatres.
"This is a great sign for Japan. However, when will Americans emerge from their political slumber? Will it take several decades of economic decay such as in Japan?"
Protests against the Iraq war were larger than for Viet Nam. However TPTB learned their lessons well from Viet Nam and squelched the movement right in the street.
Occupy Wall Street was squelched as well. Anyone remember the sniper threats?
How do you say "nailgun" in Japanese?
I smell Soros.
A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
George Soros
My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
George Soros
I need a shower after clicking that.
All those protesters and nobody smashed anything, nobody got robbed, and they didn't set fire to tokyo. Africans must just have a different content of character.
Hmm, and no home projects involving nailguns!
Congratulations, Abe, your job as managing director at Goldman Sachs for Southeast Asia has been confirmed when you leave office. (Heh, heh, little does that chump know that we have a fatal heart attack lined up for him, not a cushy job).
The age of 'pop-up" government is about time.
A community coalition to resolve a community problem-that then folds up and goes away when solved.
Standing desks and armies of bureaucrats simply have too much time on their hands and too much power. They get all of us and the rest of the world in trouble for stupid reasons
Poor bastards in Japan. They live in a demographically dead and radioactive country. Sad.
Agree. Glad I was there several times pre-Fuki. It's amazing how corrupt politicians and CEOs can ruin a really good nation. But they are not alone.
"Democracy is dead. Globally. If we fail to bring it back, history will see us as one of the most inept and spineless generations in history."
You cannot bring back what never existed.
Of course when this is the Japanese Navy's recruitment video, you shouldn't be too surprised.
Democracy is a barbarous relic.
Indeed. It fails every time. Repewblik is a relic as well. Government is anachronistic.
Its sorta like this for unthinking idiots who bleat "democracy" every chance they get.
Everything good, is democracy. Everything bad is not democracy. Its much simpler that way. It doesn't matter that its demonstrably wrong when people band together and declare some right to anothers property because 51% want it that way or the 49%'s life if it comes right down to it.
Its Democroceee! Majority rulzzzz! Its the law! Weee, we're Farrrreee!
Idiots.
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And before I leave this dumbass thread I'd just like to point out the "democracy chick" holding up the placard for her Japanese people to read, written in English.
Agree 100%. I was merely suggesting that a pure "Democracy" has never existed, nor could it ever possibly exist. Even the Democracy of classical Greece wasn't a pure 100% everybody votes on everything Democracy.
Words have meaning, but unless the definition of terms is identical in the minds of all involved, no one can know for certain what idea is being expressed.
Looks like the Japanese are fed up with being punked over raw and hard. Their standard of living has gone downhil with these wacko economic policies and Fuki was almost the tipping point but now the war stuff seems to have broken the camels back, so to speak.
I sure hope they can pull out of it since it's a beautiful country with safe streets, good food and nice people....jmho
I'm pretty sure a mature functional democracy would be where you make your own choices and accept the outcomes, some of which will be bloody great, and some will be bloody horrible.
Most of the displeasure with democracy is that immature people refuse to face that decisions always lead to outcomes between those two ends of the spectrum of possibilities, and who instead expect the democratic choices should for some reason never lead to crappy outcomes.
But that's not a problem of democracy per-sec, that's a problem of not being able to face how things really operate.
If the Chinese took out a JAL airliner over China's new ADIZ, would they still think having a capable defense to deter such behavior was a bad idea? Yeah, a few would, but most would finally figure out that they need to deter China or be bullied by them. There is no doubt in my mind that the Chinese wish to not just displace the Japanese economy, they want to totally crush it, and the perceived power projection threat Japan represents, via having that sort of economic scale.
Democracy is dead.?
This is occupied Japan. They are amending the Constitution that the US wrote for them. The US didn't want war back then.
Democracy being dead is quite a good thing. It cannot work on a scale larger than a few thousand.
Want a voice? Vote with your dollars.
Want Slavery? Visit the Prayer Booth first Tuesday every November.
"the nation’s post WWII Constitution prohibits military action unless it’s in self-defense" .... i wonder how differeng the world woukd be if the US wrote that into their Constitution.
America's wars of late and a huge chunk of its spending would be classified at best as "defense of others".
Oy veh, best not ask.
They did. Legally sending American troops to war requires a declaration of war by Congress which hasn't happened since WWII. Just another reason for the state legislatures to call an Article V convention to drastically reign in, or eliminate the federal government, thru Constitutional amendments with no involvement by the federal government.
Since they do not follow the present constitution, what makes you think they will follow an amended or completely new constitution?
But the effort would reap benefits by exposing the true aims of the statists. That alone would be worth seeing. Plus, it is the right thing to do.
American values and superiority do not stop in Waco or West Philly or with Disneyland or Kim Kardashian's ass pictures. The whole world must be democratically endowed and culturally enriched by those selfless White AngloSaxon Protestants.
In Ukraine and Libya it is mission accomlished: They look like Ferguson already. Europe to follow soon.
The United States made democracy like a cheap whore.
Slut.
Thats an insult to cheap whores
https://youtu.be/M4FuqVbwifk?t=2m6s
"and it came to pass that the Dragon fought with the Sun. Their conflagration lit the heavens, drawing the attention of the Eagle and the Bear
and they too strove with one another, and lo and behold the awe of the shit show as the viscera covered the earth causing the war pigs much mirth."
the ruling elite class, laughs at your public demonstrations..they have no impact on policy.
The people have always had the power if they stand united and make their collective voices heard as one.
japan is made up of old people and wimps. i doubt they could field much of a military.
No worries. The US MIC will supply them with all the weaponry and send 'advisers' to help.
japan is made up of old people and wimps. i doubt they could field much of a military.
So, in just one city called Tokyo then have over 13 million people that are all wimps and old people? Go back to school and clean the dishes your mom told you to clean dickhead.
Bah, just promise a Anime blow up fuck doll in every ruksack and they will fight till the last breath.
see, they love america
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=youtube+gooks+of+hazzard&ei=UTF-8&...
Democracy is bullshit, as are Constitutional Republics. Fuck 'em.
These god damn people need a strong hand to guide them.
TSA is trained in strong hand guidance!
The United States made democracy like a cheap whore.
The will of the people has a value only when it coincides with the interests of the one-party power regime in the United States.
I mean the real power in the United States.
I mean regime of military-police dictatorship, the main government party of big capital. All the rest - it's just a show for morons.
The most dangerous and irresponsible human is Lloyd Blankfein. Arrest him for treason and the world stands a chance of surviving into the future. ABE is NWO which is run by the central banks, which are run by Goldman Sachs and the old banking families.
I think ya gotta dig a little deeper than that q99.
Like maybe get the one behind the curtain. Lloyd is way out in front.
That's just fine and dandy what is being advocated. The Japanese were ruthless regarding WWII. My grandparents never forgot Pearl Harbor. I lived with them and learned their feelings and won't forget it either.
The difference now? Wider, more apathetic demographic - combined with the simple fact that minus another World War, that we simply can't afford the Status Quo anyhow!
Ever hear of the Bataan Death March?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March
This, and the use of captured soldiers as slave laborers in mines and railroads, helped guarantee they got first dibs on being nuked.
When convinced by their Emporers to be ruthless they were good at it, when convinced by their new leaders (and a nuke or two) to be pacifist and productive they were good at it. I wouldn't confuse their cultural group-think, unity and (mindless) respect for their leaders with their ability, inginuity and resolve.
... and for any Australian 'politicians' reading, word has it the only reason they didn't follow through the Darwin bombing with a ground invasion was widespred ownership of firearms by the citizens ... now all they have to worry about is a little rock throwing and our 3 soldiers - who are permanently touring Iraq et al.
Abe= US neo con backed puppet.
history will see us as one of the most inept and spineless generations in history.
Too late. 1. Bottled water. 2. Spanking children. 3. Bike helments 4. Pink 5. Twitter 6. Assfacebook 7. 'smart' phones 8..........
Where's John Lennon when you need him? We get Clowns now: Clooney and Cyrus
The unfortunate effect of FDR is that the entire Boomer generation grew up believing extremely naive things. There are monsters amongst their own and I see generations younger than I looking at my parent's generation with complete and utter scorn due to this inability of Boomers to put away their childish ideals.
The kind of society Boomers think they live in takes vigilance against the grasping nature of humanity and the Boomers were anything but.
japan would be better served going back to the shogun and samurai..ditch the west
The world was better when Japan, not China, dominated the East. Kokka Shugi!
I wonder if Nanking feels the same?
Look at this election cycle. The GOP debate featured 9 stiffs and a megalomaniac. Good entertainment for sure but without Trump that debate would have been deadly.
That is not choice that is like the McDonald's menu. No matter what you pick you will be sorry 1/2 hour after you ingested.
Japan has, since end of WW2, been USs bitch. What do you expect. Abe sure isn't doing this in order "to help" the citizens of Japan. When the US says jump, Abe obeys by "how high?". Obviously, this is Washington making decisions. I am curious at what point will someone stand up and start shooting these nutjobs. I mean, your days on earth would probably be numbered, then again, you're taking one for humanity. I mean, consider the alternatives of a possible WW3. Qutie a small price to pay I'd say.
The Japanese are left with robots as the option.
Who knows how much radioactive material they stashed during the meltdowns?
Japan is being prep as the Kamikadze nation by the weakened US military Emporium, a nation to be sacrificed in the WWIII against Russia and China and many Japanese people see it for what it is, while Abe, the son of executed war criminal is leading them again on the path to militarism and, this time, complete nuclear annihilation.
An interesting background piece of the Japan so-called post WWII economic miracle in the Geopolitical context I found at:
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/japan-miracle-that-wa...
Abe's father wasn't "an executed war criminal." That is completely false. He was, though, the longest reigning foreign minister in Japanese history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintaro_Abe
Wikipedia is lying and that's the fact and is written by western propagandists but I should have said grandson not son and that's a typo. Check with the Chinese and Korean or Russian or even some older american sources you will see totally different picture. All the Japanese government officials were declared criminals after defeat similar to Germany, almost all were convicted and many executed at random to be later "rehabilitated" or whitewashed when the Cold war started.
The US never ceased to militarily occupy Japan after WW2.
The US still pulls the strings on what is allegedly Japan's
foreign and economic policies.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-military-pivot-to-asia-obama-wants...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/dangerous-crossroads-us-japan-talks-escalat...
GWEN IFILL: One of the things that Prime Minister Abe has been trying to do is to change the constitution to allow Japan to take better part or greater — play a greater role in these multinational efforts in these regions we’re talking about.
Right now, the constitution allows only for self-defense. Japanese people have not reacted very well to that, even though the U.S. has encouraged it.
CAROLINE KENNEDY (US ambassador): Well, I think it’s going to allow them to participate in peacekeeping, and to help the United States, and so — and to protect the United States when we’re doing joint operations.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/caroline-kennedy-critical-time-u-s-japan/
example of what are allegedly
"Japan's" economic policies:
… money was flowing into Japan at an unprecedented rate. Prices were beginning to move upwards and new money was flowing into the stock market at an unprecedented rate, causing the Nikkei to rise faster than market fundamentals might dictate.
By the mid-1980s, the Japanese Central Bank decided to slow the economy down by raising interest rates. This action would dampen any inflationary tendencies and prevent a stock market bubble from forming. However, as logical as this solution was, it was to be opposed by the US government and never implemented.
At the time, most of the Japanese money was being invested in US Treasuries, as the Reagan administration was borrowing heavily to fund its military buildup. During Reagan’s presidency, US government debt tripled from one to four trillion dollars, the greatest percentage increase of US debt in history.
The US knew that any rise in Japanese interest rates would slow the flow of Japanese funds to the US. Japanese investors would much prefer to keep their money in Japan if interest rates were high enough.
But during this time, the Reagan administration needed a constant flow of foreign dollars to pay for its military expenditures and when it heard about the plans of the Japanese Central Bank, it did more than register a protest. It threatened Japan with economic sanctions.
If the Japanese went ahead with their interest rate increase, the US threatened to retaliate with import tariffs on Japanese automobiles, electronics, and consumer goods. This threat was real enough to cause the Japanese to cancel their interest rate increase.
As a result, the US military buildup continued and the price of Japanese real estate and stocks, fueled by excessive amounts of liquidity, exploded upwards. Japanese real estate prices increased 70 times over and stock prices increased over 100-fold, with the Nikkei reaching a market top at 38,992 in January 1990.
As with all speculative bubbles, the Nikkei collapsed - and the collapse of the Nikkei in 1990 unleashed deflationary forces not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Prices of stocks and real estate in Japan began a long and steep multi-year descent.
Commercial real estate lost 80% of its value in the next decade and the Nikkei fell from 38,992 in 1990 to 8,237 in 2003. Deflationary cycles are long and protracted and if not stopped will become deflationary depressions, an economic phenomenon for which there are no ready answers.
In a deflationary cycle, prices fall because of decreasing demand for services and goods. Should deflation take root in the US, real estate prices, stock prices, and prices of services will fall for years until a bottom is eventually found. And in a depression, when a bottom is found there will be no upward bounce. The economy will merely lie inert as it did during the 1930s
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/schoon/schoon121912.html
"The United States wants Japan to assume a role very much like the one it has vis-a-vis the British," said Tetsuo Maeda, professor of arms reduction and security at Tokyo International University. "The Self-Defense Forces would be regularly deployed overseas for military operations if this kind of realignment were realized."
It would not be an easy transition if the realignment is approved.
America's force of 50,000-plus troops in Japan dates back decades and has long been hailed by both sides as the key to stability in the Asian-Pacific region and a model of cooperation. In exchange for the security the U.S. troops provide, Japan pays a whopping $5 billion, an arrangement unparalleled anywhere else in the world.
Keep your guns cleaned and oiled boys, war is coming to the US. I don't mean by foreign hand. We will be going to war with Banker/MIC/.Gov. It will come in the life time of our children if not in our lifetime. I do mean a blood in the street war. That cop in Houston, shot in the back of the head is just a tiny pinprick. Guerrilla warfare where we sneak up and shoot any and all .gov/banker/military will happen in the US within the lifespan of the living generations.
They couldn't subdue a single state, let alone 50 (or is it 57?)
They won't last two months against the people, even if they bring in foreign mercs.
Unlike any other land or war in history, the people are armed with millions upon millions of scoped hunting rifles perfectly suited to insurgent sniping.
We have had it too good over the last half century.
It's hard to rise up to violently overthrow the current order because we would then have to acknowledge that the party is over and there's no going back. The uncertainty of what comes next is more painful than just living the lie.
Once Japan changes its constitution I will be going short on East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere futures.
Why is it we can always 'afford' war?
Japan... once a U.S. colony/protectorate always a U.S. colony/protectorate.
My Japanese wife had become politically aware after a lifetime of apathy. I find she is a very accurate gauge if the zeitgeist so if she is annoyed by current events you can be pretty sure everyone in Japan is. Basically they are tired of being a colony.
Japan will attack Pearl Harbour again! The reason??! To exercise the Keynesian "broken window theory" after they get nuked again. ????
Don't the us have the military contract in japan?
They know by the end of WW4, there is no 'Japan' in the world map.
Democracy is dead. Globally. If we fail to bring it back, history will see us as one of the most inept and spineless generations in history.
The sheeple need to be slapped around more often.
The murder state is always in need of fresh blood to feed the beast.
China is trying to steal the Senkaku Islands, a collection of postage stamps in the Sea of Okinawa. It's hinted that it wants to take Okinawa too. Despite all the fuzzy-headed thinking on China here on ZH, China is a growing threat. Japan needs to be able to meet it head-on.
What's more disturbing is Abe's use of the China threat to clamp down on free speech and expand surveillance of the population. He's a Mussolini running against a field of Chamberlains, no wonder he stays in power.
Mike, you're getting off the facts.
Just because people protest this does not mean the government was not democratically elected, or that they don't have the legal right to legislate, or that the protesters represent anything like a democratic majority.
On the contrary, the Government made their intentions clear prior to the last election, and were elected, so they have a democratic mandate to implement the policies they went to the election with.
Claiming this means that democratic processes are dead everywhere, does not make it true, just that you disagree with the process and policies.
Be honest about it.
Beating up the zheep hysteria level does not help.
Not even close to being one of your better posts.
I'm a Vet, a Son and Nephew of Major War Vets (WWII/Korea/Vietnam), and served to defend JPN and KOR in the Past.
This started once PMOJPN Abe chummed up to Congress_USA; and declared that he was going to get the "Collective Defense Engagement Protocols" approved by the People and the Diet by the end of Summer.
Smoke and Mirrors didn't get very far; and the Diet Debate was like a fracking Circus. Every Brainwashed Peacenik were opposed to touching Article 9 of the MacArthur-Drafted Constitution. Even the Pro-Self Sufficiency and the Right Wingers had a problem with the Logic presented.
Mr. Abe wants JPN's SDF to be a Vassal_Team-Member Extention of the US Military around the Globe. The Logic of "We can't defend ourselves" Bullshit by the PM and the DefMin - while they spend a paltry 0.8% of their GDP on Defense (essentially being a Colony of the USA) is a fracking disgrace.
The good part is, everyone's protesting Abe's Plans as it applies to the KORean Peninsula. Nobody - not even the Right Wingers - wants to be sucked into the next Korean War. After the PMOKOR made claims about "not coming to the defense of Japan" (they never asked) - everybody in the SociaWeb Sites are telling her off.
The Vietnamese Confort Women exploited by KOR Soldiers and the KORean Women debunking KORean Prostitutes' Claims (apart from the bona fide cases - one highly publicized abduction case was debunked by the Residents who lived at the alleged Site) are calling ou the BullShit, Ms. Park.
We can send the KOReans packing and out from JPN; and KOR's Draft Dodgers(Immigrants; but they're at War and we're sending our Troops over to stand guard while they send their Kids to College here. What's wrong with this Pix?) out of the USA as well. Force them to deal with the DPK alone; and let the USA and KOR pay the price of Poking Mr. Kim and screwing with the DPK.
If USA-KOR provoke/attack the DPK with Tac Nukes and/or WMDs, let DPK respond against them. No need for JPN to shoot down TBMs and ICBMs from DPK - that's asking for TBMs to rain over JPN for exercising "Collective Defense Engagement Parameters" when JPN's not involved in the War.
OTOH, I'm all for forcing Conscription on every South Korean who skipped the Draft in KOR. As long as we have Troops there, we should send them BACK to Serve (USA or KOR Military) - THEN allow them to come (back) here to work or to attend our Universities.
Japan can defend itself in most situations just not all, like against a major nuclear power. Two major nuclear powers and one minor nuclear power are close-by, and all of them have a chip on their shoulder about the Japanese. So you either have a close alliance with a big nuclear power, or you go nuclear, or like the UK you do both. So effectively you are saying Japan must become a nuclear power.
Is the UK a vassal state, or a strategic partner? Same applies for Japan. And being a key US ally is hardly an onerous proposition, it's mostly a major advantage.
One other point. Japan is a small geographic land area buffered by ocean and wide seas and straits, plus they have a huge economy and population on the mainland Islands. So an enormous GDP for the land area. So naturally a much smaller percentage of GDP is going to be needed to effectively equip to defend it. And that's a major advantage for Japan, as they get low defense budgets, plus have the capacity to dramatically increase spending if needed, which they are only fractionally doing so far.
They have a pretty good situation overall and they know it, it serves their national security interests better than another mainland defensive arrangement would. Australia, USA and Canada have enough resources to ensure they never go without or get cut off, so their problem of having almost no natural resources is simply not a problem any more.
All they have to do is sustain their economy and maintain their trade and strategic links with the West, and they have anything they need.
And the US does not colonize countries any more, hasn't for a long time. Has the UK or Germany or Japan been colonized? 'Colonized' means you move your population in permanently, and displace the locals, permanently. That is not occurring. In fact, that is exactly what's occurring in the West and USA right now, the West is being colonized by multiple countries.
And that's exactly what Russia did, to multiple (former) true vassal states. The West hasn't done it for more than a century. In fact Western countries have pulled out of numerous countries over the past century, where low-level colonization had been previously occurring.
"'Colonized' means you move your population in permanently, and displace the locals, permanently. " Really! How bout: to send people to live in and govern another country...as in the US has tens of thousands of people (usually combat troops) living on bases in Germany and all over the world. TheUS has capture the gov'ts to the extent that it exerts strong influence over ther policies, often to the detriment of the local inhabitants. You may say it ain't olonization but if it walks like a duck...you know the rest!
Hence the definition of the term, "Vassal", Element.
They probably will have to go Nuclear. PM Nakasone mentioned it; and relying on the US_War-Machine has made them Virtual Colonies of the USA.
They don't even have Sovereign Control over their Air Space, for crying out loud. This is why the Independents and the Right-Wingers are more concerned about Self Sufficiency.
I concur with them. Taller Fences make for better neighbors. No one truly benefitted from the USA-JPN Treaty like the USA and its MIC.
BTW, I was BORN, RAISED, and STATIONED their via the Navy. Half of my Family Tree resides there.
Democracy is shiat cause most people are fucking idiots. Or people who never had a REAL JOB where they had to struggle to live and keep it can vote...
Make people take a test before they can vote... also they need to work in the private sector. If you work for government, YOU CANNOT VOTE.
WW3 is about to start and Japan's puppetmaster America wants lots of soldiers on ground especially not american (what for allies are for) , thats why they are puppetmastering Japanese govt. for this legislation.
Japan is only a geisha (hoe) of america
Nautch girl
It was about time jap people stop being just humble and start taking matter into their hands. About damn time.