On the one hand, sovereignty, on the other hand, Japan doesn't really have a good track record with a military, to put it lightly. To put it bluntly, they better not be planning some weird shit or things are going to get very bad, very rapidly for them.
They're not technically legally allowed to have an army. Only a "self defense force."
Not al all, there’s is literally a legally capped tiny force that cannot engage unless attacked first. The IDF is a defense force in name only. The JDF actually is one
they could only act in self defense, their military is called the Japanese Self Defense Force. I think it was a condition of their surrender after ww2 so they had to rely on the US for protection
isn't japan on a even weirder situation with their whole being neighbors of china like on a geopolitical stance
yeah but like japan main opponent on asia are china and like in economic sense s korea neither is a country you can just first strike for different reasons, so are they just going back to imperial japan mindset and going after pacific small nations or are they just posturing to seem strong big boy in asia is more of what i am thinking about
like it is not a good time for them starting to say this shit as the us seems to be beating the drums of war on china so really not great situation all around imo they shouldn't do a first strike policy, also the idea that some japanese dudes think that north korea is their foe instead of you know south korea who is a way more comparable and has direct economic conflicts just because of ideology is so dumb but that is nationalism for you i guess
Can anyone tell me what the story is in japan? Like obv economic issues and declining birth rates, but I'm dumb and don't know the political situation very well, I only watch their anime.
Their constitution says their military cant fight with anyone for any reason other than being attacked first.
They want to stop doing that thing. The right is in control and they want to re-establish the suppressed fascism in their society. The weird thing about Japan is that it had shitloads of pacifism just poured over the top of imperialism, racism and fascism. I really don't want to see what would happen if they become active imperially - they might be almost as bad as the US.
They don’t have nearly Enough of the resources or manpower to become as imperial as the US or imperial at all really. And the pacifism May have been poured over the shit buts it’s still a big part of their modern society.
Yeah for sure, but maybe they could pull it off in just a couple places if they really put their effort toward it.
The most I could see is Japense imperialism forcing Americans imperialism off their island
Just a "fun" fact: Abe's grandfather was a class A war criminal who was so brutal in oppressing and massacring the Chinese he got the nickname "The Devil of Shōwa"
After the war the US of course let him go with no charges and even made him prime minister to fight the Japanese Socialists.
I was going to remark on the crazy "puts Okinawans in danger" framing, but then I looked at this guy's timeline and it's a trip. He lives in Hawaii, and wants Hawaiian independence from the US? And Ryukyu independence not only from US military bases, but from Japan as well?
And what's with his Japanese tweets? Some kind of exaggerated Ryukyu dialect? I can't understand it at all.
I haven't looked at his tweets, but Hawaiian independence is kinda an important thing to support if you're against american imperialism. America literally illegally annexed an independent nation and filled it with enough white people to vote for it to become a state, and now native Hawaiians are subject to homelessness and abject poverty because their land is beautiful so lots of multinational corporations have set up shop to suck up all the tourism dollars and they have a hard time making ends meet because cost of living is so high
The "Japanese" in his tweets is Okinawan. It's a separate language that is written with the Japanese writing system, for obvious reasons. Most people in Okinawa speak an Okinawan dialect of Japanese, but this is different. It's a bit like Welsh or Irish in regards how the population is treated.
Hm. It's the combination of it being 80% understandable as heavily-inflected Japanese and the people responding to him in perfectly understandable Japanese that threw me, then.
Well some of his writing is just Okinawan dialect, and not actual Okinawan. Though I don't know how much the average Japanese person understands of Okinawan. Though I've always been curious.
DID YOU NOT LEARN YOUR FUCKING LESSON? DO WE HAVE TO DO HIROSHIMA AGAIN?
im surprised the "self defense only" lasted that long. of course they first started the shift by doing "peacekeeping" not too long ago
Terrible if war were to break out between China and Japan, but interesting to see where the world's loyalties lie. I assume helping Japan to conquer China, but can the west stand without cheap Chinese goods?
I feel like China would smash them. It's not a peasant country anymore
They're still kinda behind in terms of military power though. I guess that's not a super big deal when your production is so well organized that you can build a city in a month. Just gotta retool for war communism.
So japan is just inviting china to wipe them off the map yeah? Cause who would they start shit with that wouldn't make the place look like a godzilla nest before they couls start talks
