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Japan
DIR By: guest55
Date: May 28, 2022, 10:34 am
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Japan to Export Jets, Missiles to 12 Nations: Bid to Counter
Belligerent China in Indo-Pacific?
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> Japan is reportedly set to allow export of fighter jets,
missiles, and other weapons to 12 nations in a major policy
shift. Japan intends to bolster deterrence against China through
cooperation with countries that have signed individual security
agreements with it. Tokyo reportedly plans to export aircraft
and advanced sea-launched interceptor missiles after amending
relevant policies. Japan's new export policy a bid to counter
belligerent China in the Indo-Pacific?
>
> #JapanDefenceExports. #JapanChinaNews. #ChinaNews.
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#Post#: 13719--------------------------------------------------
Re: Japan to Export Jets, Missiles to 12 Nations: Bid to Counter
Belligerent China in Indo-Pacific?
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 28, 2022, 9:27 pm
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We must always view the modern hostility between China and Japan
as a historical aberration compared to friendly relations going
back two thousand years, which are what we should be getting
back to:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China%E2%80%93Japan_relations
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> The first mention of the Japanese archipelago was in the
Chinese historic text Book of Later Han, in the year 57, in
which it was noted that the Emperor of the Han dynasty gave a
golden seal to Wa (Japan). The King of Na gold seal was
discovered in northern Kyūshū in the eighteenth
century.[3] From then on Japan was repeatedly recorded in
Chinese historical texts, at first sporadically, but eventually
continuously as Japan matured into a notable power in the
region.
>
> There is a Chinese tradition that the first Chinese Emperor,
Qin Shi Huang, sent several hundred people to Japan to search
for medicines of immortality. During the third century, Chinese
travelers reported that inhabitants of Japan claimed ancestry
from Wu Taibo, a king of the Wu state (located in modern Jiangsu
and Zhejiang) during the Warring States era.[4][5]
> ...
> During the Sui dynasty and Tang dynasty, Japan sent many
students on a limited number of Imperial embassies to China, to
help establish its own footing as a sovereign nation in
northeast Asia.
> ...
> Important elements brought back from China (and some which
were transmitted through Baekje to Japan) included Buddhist
teachings, Chinese customs and culture, bureaucracy,
architecture and city planning. The Japanese kimono is very
similar to the clothing of the Tang Dynasty, and many historians
believe that the Japanese started wearing robes like what Tang
royalty wore, eventually adapting the garb to match Japanese
culture. The capital city of Kyoto was also planned according to
Feng Shui elements from the Chinese capital of Chang'an. During
the Heian period, Buddhism became one of the major religions,
alongside Shinto.
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As was previously mentioned here:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/russia-the-last-colonial-empire/msg8620/#msg8620
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> China and Japan will only join forces when they remember how
they used to see the West:
>
>
HTML https://supchina.com/2021/08/11/the-start-of-modern-sino-japanese-relations/
>
> [quote]On July 31, 1862, the Japanese steamship Senzaimaru
arrived at Nagasaki, ending a two-month stay in China. Crewed on
its voyage home by 10 Dutch sailors, the mission of “a handful
of shogunal [government] officials, three merchants and other
officials associated with the Nagasaki Commercial Hall, and a
large number of young samurai attendants whose job description
was never explicitly spelled out,” as historian Joshua Fogel
described them in his book Maiden Voyage, the Senzaimaru was the
first official overseas embassy sent from Japan to China in more
than 300 years.
> ...
> In the 19th century, both China and Japan were grappling with
expanding European maritime power, power that had made their
previous trade policies unsustainable.
> ...
> With this in mind, Japan looked toward the nearby Chinese
treaty ports to see what this new era of international trade
might offer.
>
> The most obvious and promising link to be made was between
Nagasaki and Shanghai. Nagasaki — in the news this week on the
anniversary of the second atomic bombing in 1945 — had been
Japan’s only port open to international trade for centuries, a
role it retained as commerce with the United States and Europe
began to open in the 1850s. Shanghai, quickly emerging as
China’s most cosmopolitan port, was also the closest point on
the Chinese mainland to Nagasaki, just 500 miles away across the
East China Sea.
> ...
> The Japanese observers were also keenly aware of the disparate
situation of Chinese and Westerners in the city. “Although the
harbor is all hustle-bustle, it is due entirely to the large
number of foreign merchant vessels. Within and without the
walled city are numerous foreign commercial houses which are
thus thriving. The places where I have seen Chinese living are
often poor and filthy.” The same samurai who had noted the
port’s prosperity later corrected himself, writing, “Pray, do
not say of Shanghai that this is a flourishing place, For how
much of it is being transported home on barbarian ships?”
> ...
> “The main purpose of the mission of the Senzaimaru was to
observe the Western world in microcosm in Shanghai,” he writes.
“In this way, Shanghai was to serve a double role as microcosm
both of the West and of China.” The Japanese observers came away
from their time in Shanghai repulsed by Western racism and
arrogance. They viewed the exploitation of China as a lesson for
Japan: in particular, the Qing acceptance of Western aid to
fight the Taiping rebels — the Senzaimaru arrived at the height
of the Taiping War — as a deal with the devil that would lead
China to ruin. They were not wrong.
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[/quote]
Also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/formosa/msg4859/#msg4859
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> Koxinga is regarded as a hero in the People's Republic of
China, Taiwan, and Japan, but historical narratives regarding
Koxinga frequently differ in explaining his motives and
affiliation. Japan treats him as a native son and emphasized his
maternal link to Japan in propaganda during the Japanese
occupation of Taiwan.[74] The People's Republic of China
considers Koxinga a national hero for driving the imperialist
Dutch away from Taiwan and establishing ethnic Chinese rule over
the island.[74]
> ...
> In Taiwan, Koxinga is honored as the island’s most respected
saint for expelling the Dutch and seen as the original ancestor
of a free Taiwan, and is known as Kaishan Shengwang, or "the
Sage King who Opened up Taiwan"[76] and as "The Yanping
Prince",[77] referring to the Kingdom of Tungning, which he
established in modern-day Tainan.
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So we should not be against Japan selling fighter yets and
missiles to Indo-Pacific countries. Who is to say they will not
one day be used against Australia?
#Post#: 14467--------------------------------------------------
Re: Japan to Export Jets, Missiles to 12 Nations: Bid to Counter
Belligerent China in Indo-Pacific?
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 3, 2022, 10:35 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/former-japanese-prime-minister-urges-093000218.html
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> Former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama has called for
more political dialogue between China and Japan and accused the
current Japanese government of playing up ideological
differences to "encircle" Beijing together with the US.
> ...
> This year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalisation of
diplomatic relations between Beijing and Tokyo, and Hatoyama
said on Sunday that the US, Japan and China should increase
efforts to manage tensions, particularly over Taiwan, which is
widely seen as a dangerous potential flashpoint.
>
> He said Kishida's comments about China were "totally different
from reality" and urged both the US and Japan to reaffirm the
one-China policy to avoid the tragedy of war over Taiwan.
>
> "I believe between China and the US, especially between US
President [Joe] Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, there
should be good dialogue going on to assure a consensus on the
one-China policy - that is Taiwan is part of China's territory,
which should be reaffirmed," he said.
>
> Hatoyama, who was in office between 2009 and 2010 leading a
coalition of parties opposed to the usually dominant Liberal
Democratic Party, also called for more political dialogue
between China and Japan and said such exchanges were "unusual".
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The main problem with Japan's left is how rarely it wins
elections.....
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/hopeless-japans-weak-opposition-no-043217453.html
Back to first link:
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> "It is not surprising that two independent countries have
differences, but to use this as a reason for not communicating
between leaders, this is foolish and a dereliction of
diplomacy," Hatoyama said.
>
> He said a mechanism could be established so that the foreign
ministers of Japan and China could meet every two or three
months, adding: "Even meeting online would be good so that when
the atmosphere improves, we can restart our military dialogues.
>
> "If usual communication is like this, once the situation
escalates, communication between China and Japan will be even
more difficult, and I am very worried that a situation, which
could have been prevented beforehand, will end up being
uncontrollable."
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Good advice. But will the rightists in power listen? They might
if the US takes a more positive stance towards China. Which all
goes back to:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/china-and-united-states-relations/
#Post#: 14624--------------------------------------------------
Re: Japan to Export Jets, Missiles to 12 Nations: Bid to Counter
Belligerent China in Indo-Pacific?
DIR By: acc9
Date: July 11, 2022, 8:02 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GjA6cjVxT8
The recently assassinated Shinzo Abe once said that "whereas my
physical DNA is from my paternal side, my political DNA is from
my maternal side".........
It is exposed in this commentary from a renowned Hong Kong KOL
that his maternal grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of
Japan from 1957-60 was in fact one of the chief instigators of
not only the invasion of NE China in the 1930s, but also member
of the think tank that later installed the puppet state
Manchukuo in China, initiated huge plantations of poppies
(80,000 acres) to produce and sell opium in China, and
ultimately set up the infamous 731 troops as well as the
poisonous gas laboratory to experiment on humans (ordinary
Chinese people).
A close comrade of the WWII A+ war criminal Tojo Hideki who took
responsibility for some of the most brutal war crimes in China
and SE Asia, Kishe somehow escaped similar prosecutions and
instead became a powerful right-wing figure of major influence
in Japanese politics - well known for being a staunch supporter
of the West in general and US in particular.
#Post#: 14957--------------------------------------------------
Re: Japan to Export Jets, Missiles to 12 Nations: Bid to Counter
Belligerent China in Indo-Pacific?
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 2, 2022, 6:13 pm
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Look who's back:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-ambassador-japan-warns-chinese-100727936.html
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> US ambassador to Japan warns of Chinese economic coercion
> ...
> Rahm Emanuel
> ...
> Emanuel said that finding ways for Japan and the United States
to stand up to Chinese economic coercion was one of the first
issues he raised with Japan’s foreign minister.
> ...
> “Much to the prime minister’s credit, he looked around the
corner and realized what was happening in this region and the
world — Japan needed to step up in ways it hadn’t in the past,”
Emanuel said.
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More about Emanuel:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg7083/#msg7083
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/linda-sarsour-disavowed-by-biden-camp/msg6781/#msg6781
Can you figure out what is going on? Hint:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/duginism/msg14943/#msg14943
#Post#: 15250--------------------------------------------------
Japan Is (Again) Becoming a Military Powerhouse
DIR By: guest78
Date: August 21, 2022, 2:11 pm
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Japan Is (Again) Becoming a Military Powerhouse
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> Japan, after more than 70 years, is abandoning its pacifist
path and confronting the Chinese challenge.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB-fBGMJVR8
#Post#: 15383--------------------------------------------------
Japan, South Korea Seal Energy Deals With Putin’s Russia Amid
Ukraine War l Setback To Biden’s US?
DIR By: guest78
Date: August 29, 2022, 2:58 pm
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Japan, South Korea Seal Energy Deals With Putin’s Russia Amid
Ukraine War l Setback To Biden’s US?
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> The US’ efforts to isolate Russia in the energy sector faced a
setback from two of its East Asian allies. Japan and South Korea
are respectively entering and maintaining energy deals with
Russian players amid the war in Ukraine. Watch the video to know
how their deals with Moscow comes as a loss of face for the US
government.
>
> #russia #usa #japan #southkorea
>
> 00:00 - INTRODUCTION
> 01:08 - RUSSIA-SOUTH KOREA DEAL
> 02:08 - JAPAN RETAINS STAKE IN SAKHALIN II
> 03:05 - SETBACK TO THE US’ ‘ISOLATE RUSSIA’ MISSION?
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=659B5mvm2mI
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Re: Japan to Export Jets, Missiles to 12 Nations: Bid to Counter
Belligerent China in Indo-Pacific?
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 12, 2022, 12:22 am
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Okinawans finally understand:
HTML https://news.yahoo.com/okinawa-voters-expected-turn-backs-025203180.html
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> Okinawa re-elects opposition-backed governor in blow to ruling
party
>
> TOKYO (Reuters) -Voters in Japan's Okinawa re-elected Denny
Tamaki as governor on Sunday, public broadcaster NHK and other
media said, backing an independent candidate who wants a smaller
U.S. military footprint on the chain of islands near Taiwan.
>
> The anticipated re-election of Tamaki, who was supported by a
coalition of opposition parties, is a sign of pushback against
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's ruling party, which has been hit
by scandal over members' ties to the Unification Church.
>
> Okinawa prefecture is far closer to Taiwan than to Tokyo,
putting it front and centre to growing tension in the region.
> ...
> His victory is likely to be seen as a setback for Kishida's
ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has seen approval ratings
slide over revelations about the long-running links between some
lawmakers and the Unification Church, which critics call a cult.
> ...
> Kishida's ruling (LDP) has pushed for increased defence
spending to counter Beijing and backed former local mayor
Atsushi Sakima. Tamaki defeated Sakima in 2018, partly by
calling for the large Futenma U.S. air base to be moved outside
the prefecture.
>
> Okinawa saw some of the bloodiest fighting in World War Two
and has long resented the burden of hosting the majority of U.S.
troops in Japan on facilities that take up 5% of its land.
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Contrast with less than a year earlier:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/military-decolonization/msg9609/#msg9609
More broadly:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/japan-pms-support-slides-hit-013719014.html
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> TOKYO (Reuters) - Support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio
Kishida tumbled to its lowest since he took office, hit by anger
over his ruling party's ties to a controversial church and a
state funeral for former leader Shinzo Abe, an opinion poll
showed on Monday.
>
> Government support fell to 41%, from 47% in a previous poll
late in August, to hit its lowest since Kishida took office last
October, identical to similar polls published last week, and
down from 57% in early July, the poll showed.
>
> The share of those who did not support Kishida rose to 47%
from 39%, the poll by the Asahi Shimbun daily showed.
>
> Links to the Unification Church, founded in South Korea in the
1950s, have become an increasing headache for Kishida since July
8, when Abe was killed by a suspect who blamed him for
supporting the church, which he said had bankrupted his mother.
--- End Quote ---
Moral: one person with a firearm really can change the course of
history.
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Re: Japan to Export Jets, Missiles to 12 Nations: Bid to Counter
Belligerent China in Indo-Pacific?
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 26, 2022, 7:09 pm
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Better times:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/japanese-leaders-trip-china-72-011813266.html
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> TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese leader who normalized relations with
China 50 years ago feared for his life when he flew to Beijing
for the high-stakes negotiations at the height of the Cold War,
according to his daughter, a former Japanese foreign minister.
>
> Kakuei Tanaka's mission to normalize relations with China just
two months after taking office was a huge gamble, his daughter,
Makiko Tanaka, said in an interview with The Associated Press
ahead of the 50th anniversary Thursday of the historic
communique that Tanaka signed with his counterpart, Zhou Enlai.
>
> The then-prime minister told his daughter before his departure
that he would resign if his mission failed, recalled Makiko
Tanaka, who served as foreign minister and in other key posts
from 1993 to 2012.
>
> Opposition was so fierce in Japan, she said, that some ruling
party hawks came to their home the day before the trip to try to
stop him from leaving.
> ...
> When Tanaka, who died in 1993, made his trip, memories were
fresh in Beijing of Japanese brutality during the first half of
the 20th century. There was also opposition from anti-communist
lawmakers in Tokyo.
> ...
> Kakuei Tanaka, however, was determined to make amends with
China and change the state of the relationship with a country he
saw as a growing power, his daughter said.
> ...
> Makiko quoted her father as saying that “leaving the China
issue dangling is not good for Japan’s future. She said her
father “was ready to lower his head and apologize to China (over
Japan's wartime atrocities) to create a win-win relationship for
Japan’s major benefit.”
>
> Contrary to his worries, Tanaka was treated in China with
extreme hospitality.
>
> His biggest relief centered on Zhou’s pledge to waive China’s
right to seek war compensation, which he said saved Japan from
going bankrupt. Makiko Tanaka says the waiver was in exchange
for Japan’s pledge to sever formal ties with Taiwan.
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Advice for today:
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> “Japan’s alliance with the United States is a lynchpin of our
diplomacy, but we should not isolate China,” Makiko Tanaka said.
>
> She raised worries about U.S.-led groupings of like-minded
democracies, including Japan, as a counter to China, and
cautioned against pushing Beijing toward closer ties with
Russia.
>
> “We are just banding together and being confrontational”
toward China, said Tanaka
> ...
> Makiko Tanaka said an improvement in the current political
relationship between Beijing and Tokyo is hopeless, but she is
pushing for deeper ties in the private sector. She has been
invited to speak at Qinghua University in Beijing, and she is
planning to invite a Chinese delegation to visit her father’s
tomb in his hometown of Niigata later this year.
>
> “If business, scientists and cultural exchanges were prompted
more, there would be a sense of closeness” between the
countries, Tanaka said. “Diplomacy is about people, and whether
you can develop personal relations and talk when needed, but
politicians who can do this are rare.”
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Japan to Export Jets, Missiles to 12 Nations: Bid to Counter
Belligerent China in Indo-Pacific?
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 28, 2022, 11:44 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/friend-foe-japan-china-ties-015344911.html
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> TOKYO: CAN PEOPLE EXCHANGES OVERCOME TOXIC TIES?
>
> Japanese college student Momoe Unou went to the Tokyo festival
to scout out the food — she wants to sell Chinese dumplings and
buns at an upcoming event with exchange students from China.
>
> Until a high school trip to China, her view of the country was
based solely on textbooks and TV news — and it wasn’t a positive
one. Once there, she was struck by the eagerness of her Chinese
counterparts to communicate, prompting her to major in Asian
studies.
>
> “I would have thought of China as a scary nation if television
news were my only source of information about it,” she said.
>
> The Japan-China Exchange Festival returned last weekend after
a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers
hope it will help restart cultural exchange despite tense
political ties as Japan is pulled into a growing rivalry between
the U.S. and China.
>
> Festival adviser Yasuo Fukuda, a former prime minister who is
an active proponent of better ties with China, said the pandemic
has reduced communication between the two nations.
>
> “Lack of dialogue increases risks of misunderstanding … and
things that do not happen under normal circumstances could
happen,” he said in an interview with the AP.
>
> “I hope this festival provides an opportunity for you to think
of that day 50 years ago and find our path for the future," he
said in remarks at the opening of the two-day event.
> ...
> BEIJING: CAN SOFT POWER OVERCOME WARTIME HISTORY?
>
> A fatty, garlicky smell greets visitors to Yume Wo Katare
restaurant in the Chinese capital. And come they do, lining up
at times for the 90 or so bowls of Jiro-style ramen served daily
at the shop in the Japanese restaurant row.
>
> Owner Shi Xin, who has lived in Japan, expressed a sense of
achievement at bringing back the hearty soup with its thick
noodles and winning over fans among both Chinese and Japanese
living in Beijing.
>
> “Although it’s nothing huge, through small things like food, I
hope to promote friendship between China and Japan and
contribute to cultural exchange,” he said ahead of the
dinnertime rush at his 6-year-old restaurant.
>
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