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The COVID-19 War in Japan: Is National Face-Saving More Important than the People’s Lives?

27Jun

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Health, Japan

The COVID-19 War in Japan: Is National Face-Saving More Important than the People’s Lives?

By: Prof. Joseph H. Chung The performance of Shinzo Abe in the war against the corona virus has been less than poor. Abe is blamed for having put the policy priority to the Olympics and Abenomics over human life. The Japanese people have the legendary docility and they seldom protest government policies. But, this time, the life of each Japanese person is threatened. Would they continue their docility and silence? In this paper I will do the following. First, I will discuss the problems of Abe’s handling of the COVID-19. I argue that Abe made two errors, namely the missing of the golden time and mismanagement of the whole process of fighting the virus. Second, I will see the nature and the depth of the ordinary Japanese people’s dissatisfaction with Abe’s ...

2Apr

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Japan

Abe Shinzo and Japan’s One-Strong (Ikkyo) State

By Gavan McCormack Asia-Pacific Research, One Strong Abe Shinzo has exercised extraordinary influence over the Japanese state. On 20 November 2019, as he passed his 2,587th day in office (over eight years) he became modern Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister. But what are the sources of this longevity and what will be the consequences for Japan and the Asia-Pacific? Probably few, even among his close supporters, suggest that he has been exceptionally popular. His parliamentary dominance rests on a combination of political apathy, absence of credible opposition, and a well-funded political party machine honed by more than half a century of Cold War and post-Cold War parliamentary dominance. From a narrow electoral base, during his second term of office that followed t...

18Feb

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Japan, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Trump Mideast plan backs Nazi apartheid, not peace

Trump Mideast plan backs Israeli apartheid, not peace By Joyce Chediac Protesting Trump plan in Gaza. Photo: twitter.com/KhaledAbu Toameh. The entire spectrum of Palestinian political and civil groups, from the Occupied Territories, to the diaspora to inside Israel, have rejected Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century,” and called for resistance against it. They are denouncing the so-called peace plan as annexation of Palestinian land, a declaration of war against Palestinian rights and a legitimization of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid. Trump calls the plan a “deal,” but this was no agreement between two parties. Palestinian groups neither participated nor were consulted in the plan’s construction. No Palestinian demands have been addressed or included. The plan i...

10Feb

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Japan, USA

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives.

By Washington's Blog Global Research, Relevant article selected from the GR archive, first published on Washington Blog and Global Research in October 2012. Atomic Weapons Were Not Needed to End the War or Save Lives Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives. But most of the top American military officials at the time said otherwise. The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey group, assigned by President Truman to study the air attacks on Japan, produced a report in July of 1946 that concluded (52-56): Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Su...

28Dec

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Japan

Japan – Ending a War and Saving Lives?

By Larry Romanoff A couple of years ago an American writer named Greg Mitchell wrote an informative book on the huge cover-up orchestrated by the US government on the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Japan, and the censorship of the first Hollywood movie on the subject. (1) The government was in possession of much live film footage shot by the US military of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki that Mitchell says would have shocked viewers, with ghostlike ruins and babies with burned faces. He includes many of these original photos in his book, and details the extensive efforts to hide the facts and evidence of the use of the atomic bombs and the tapestry of lies created after the fact to justify this atrocity and present it as a necessary evil.The Hollywood movie arose because ...

16Aug

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Japan

Japan Won't Send Warships to US-led Mission in Strait of Hormuz Amid Row With Iran

© AFP 2019 / Toru YamanakaMILITARY & INTELLIGENCE11:12 02.08.2019Get short URL11401 Last week, the US invited Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Norway, South Korea, the UK, and several other countries to join a maritime protection mission in the Persian Gulf region to counter Iran . Tokyo won't send ships to join the US-led maritime force to guard tankers in the Strait of Hormuz amid an escalation of tensions between Tehran and Washington, Japan's Mainichi Shimbun has reported. According to the newspaper, however, Japan may send warships independently in order to protect their vessels in the region. "We are closely monitoring the situation and continue to collect information while working closely with the United States and other countries", Japanese Chief...

12Aug

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Japan, USA

History: US-led Pressures on Japan Performed a Central Role Leading to Pearl Harbor

By Shane Quinn Global Research By 1920, America had become by far the world’s richest country, whose strength held sway over much of the Western hemisphere, and was stretching further eastwards. As her influence expanded, the United States was posing a serious problem for the Empire of Japan, a major power with its own territorial ambitions. Unlike Japan, the US had access to some of the earth’s most resource-rich areas while enjoying unequalled security and scope. To justify US claims, pertaining to the Americas, Washington’s statesmen occasionally invoked long-held principles of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine. US president Calvin Coolidge (in office 1923-1929) said, in a White House statement of January 1927, that the Monroe Doctrine has a “distinct place” in US foreign p...

6Aug

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Japan

THE REAL REASON JAPAN SURRENDERED 'VIDEO'

https://youtu.be/CSSexxwDzgs WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE WAR On this day in 1945, the US military under the direction of President Truman dropped a nuclear bomb on a civilian target killing over 80,000 people instantly. Was the attack on Hiroshima a military necessity? No and here’s why. Two facts: 1. In terms of death and destruction, the Hiroshima nuclear attack wasn’t the biggest attack on a Japanese city. The conventional fire bombing of Tokyo killed far more. 2. The Russians were poised to mount a massive invasion. The Imperial Family agreed to surrender because they were advised that while the Japanese military might be able to hold off an American invasion, it could not withstand a combined US and Russian attack. By the way, what was Japan fighting for? To line...

5Aug

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Japan, USA

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives.

By Washington's Blog Global Research Relevant article selected from the GR archive, first published on Washington Blog and Global Research in October 2012. Atomic Weapons Were Not Needed to End the War or Save Lives Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives. But most of the top American military officials at the time said otherwise. The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey group, assigned by President Truman to study the air attacks on Japan, produced a report in July of 1946 that concluded (52-56): Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opi...

4Aug

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Japan

Secret Meeting on the Privatization of Nuclear War Held on Hiroshima Day 2003

Behind closed doors at Strategic Command Headquarters By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research The Trump Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review 2018 has called for “the development of new, more usable nuclear weapons”. The 2018 NPR is in many regards Déjà Vu. What seems to have escaped the numerous media reports on the 2018 NPR is that the development of “more usable nuclear weapons” had already been put forth in George W. Bush’s 2001 Nuclear Posture Review, which was adopted by the US Senate in late 2002. In this regard, Senator Edward Kennedy had accused the Bush Administration for having developed “a generation of more useable nuclear weapons.” namely tactical nuclear weapons (B61-11 mini-nukes) with an explosive capacity between one third a...