Posted on 08/13/2013 11:17:56 PM PDT by TexGrill
Last Tuesday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took part in a ceremony marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, an event which, combined with the following atomic bombing of Nagasaki, compelled Japan to surrender nine days later on Aug. 15, ending the Second World War. Also on Tuesday last week, Japan launched its largest warship since the war. The vessel was launched at Yokohama, where Commodore Mathew Perry came with his U.S. Asiatic fleet in 1853 to open Japan to the West. The 250-meter-long Izumo looks like an aircraft carrier, though officially it is a destroyer. Well, it's a flat-top super-destroyer that carries 14 helicopters with a flight deck where combat aircraft that can vertically take off and land can be accommodated. The new vessel shares the same name as the famed Japanese cruiser which played a pivotal part in the Shanghai War of 1937, withstanding repeated Chinese attacks.
In May, Abe offended China and South Korea by tacitly denying Japan's imperialist aggression toward its Asian neighbors. The Japanese leader stated that there is no established definition of invasion, either academically or internationally.
Around the same time, he posed for a photo in the cockpit of a military training jet fighter emblazoned with the number 731, the unit number of an infamous Imperial Army group that conducted lethal chemical and biological wartime experiments on Chinese civilians. Moreover, Abe has reportedly moved to permit the use of the rising sun banner, a symbol of horror to Asian victims of Japanese colonial aggression.
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Japan is busy building up and keeping tis military modern to confront a rapidly growing and modernizing Chinese Navy a few hundred miles from their shores.
I’m glad they are and are willing to help carry the load in the WestPac that so many of our European allies have lost the stomach and will for in Europe and NATO.
Yeah. It’s not like obama-san will stand with them. *sigh*
Too many effeminate fatties.
Like Germany.
Maybe they should. With the tantrums and decisions Japan has had over our military bases and now a weak US with Broncobama at the helm, add in an aggressive China...well, it would just makes sense.
Maybe that’s not so bad. Japan can start feeling the full weight of their defense costs. Maybe the whole frickin’ world can. Socialism has been more affordable for the rest of the world because of the US, yet they’ve kicked the US as the horrid, awful aggressors the whole time.
We shoulder much of the military costs of protecting the world. It’s time for the other nations to put-up or shut up. I’ve had enough of the pampered finger-pointing whiners. Other nations need to get their own hands dirty for a change.
I’m starting to see the Paul light. I’m not there yet but give me a bit and may get there. Let the defense of their nations really start costing them tax-dollars and lives. The US is the Rodney Dangerfield of countries.
Just so you know...media blackout on this ....
Fukushima now in state of emergency, leaking 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean daily
August 13, 2013 at 10:39 am
Japan’s nuclear watchdog has now declared the leak of radioactive water from Fukushima a “state of emergency.” Each day, 300 tons of radioactive water seeps into the ocean, and it’s now clear that TEPCO has engage in a two-and-a-half-year cover-up of immense magnitude.
“I believe it’s been leaking into the ocean from the start of the crisis two-and-a-half years ago,” disclosed a 12-year TEPCO veteran named Suzuki-san (SOURCE)
“There are still reactor buildings we haven’t gotten into yet,” said another worker named Fujimoto-san. “So there’s always the possibility of another explosion…”
TEPCO workers sprayed with wildly radioactive water while waiting for a bus Just how out of control is the situation at Fukushima? It’s so out of control that TEPCO recently had to admit 10 of its workers were somehow — yeah, see if you can figure this out — sprayed with highly radioactive water while waiting for a bus.
“The workers’ exposure above the neck was found to be as much as 10 becquerels per square centimeter,” reports Bloomberg.com
good for them... they’ll need it
it’s not like the US will be there to back them up.
our marines, what’s left of them, will spend most of their days in sensitivity training followed by interior design and fashion instruction
This article is so anti-japanese it’s laughable. The rising sun has been the japanese ensign flying on all their ships and was never changed after the war. It is seperate from the standard flag as are most nations. The U.S. is an exception to the rule where our ensign looks identical to our flag.
Time is running out for Japan as a nation state. Low birth rate will make the population extinct before the end of the century. China and North Korea are able to destroy the country within a week of hostilites. Maybe the USA could agree to give the country protective status until the last Japanese citizen is dead, and then annex it to South Korea maybe.
Good for Japan—They must man up or ceast to exist as a power. They need to work on their birth rate too—Encourage women to stay at home and raise kids! This isn’t impossible.
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