Posted on 04/11/2005 7:51:53 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Ping!
So....what changes to the constitution are they looking at?
ping
HEADLINE:
PRESIDENT TO DO SOMETHING
Congress likely to react
(uh, you mind telling us WHAT the Japanese are going to do?)
One of the major issues would be article 9 that restricts the use of military overseas, which would be the main point of this article. However, the positive attitude for a change in article 9 has once declined in the past. Meanwhile, the Japanese people feel a need to participate more in the United Nations Peace Keeping Operations since they were criticized in the Gulf War for lack of participation. This movement should not be seen as a pro-American attitude, but fear against isolation from the world while under threat from China and people's demand to be part of United Nations.
I've long believed the only reason Japan is not a nuclear power is because they store the triggers on one side of the room, and the warheads on the other.
As I read the last two paragraphs, that would be Article 9...
Banzai Nippon!
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You got a point there. Maybe a China-Japan-India axis in the future? Tom Clancy wrote of such in Debt of Honor. Who would have thought a China-India "strategic partnership" was possible until now? India can take over Australia, China taking over Siberia, and Japan taking over WestPac. That was the scenario envisioned by Clancy. In the same novel, suicide pilot crashed into the Capitol Building, killing POTUS and whole bunch of top officials. Who would have thought that being possible?
Obviously this is not a direct result of the anti-Japanese protests that have taken place throughout China over the past week, but certainly it is a result of China's increasingly aggressive behavior in many other areas as well as her hard pressed desires to become a regional and global military power.
I believe that Japan is the sleeping dragon of Asia and China should take care not to shake the ground too much
How is the Japanese constitution amended?
"I believe that Japan is the sleeping dragon of Asia and China should take care not to shake the ground too much."
I agree totally. The future of Asia is in what Japan does, not what China, or even India, does. The Japanese have been the most progressive and dynamic Asian nation since the Meiji Resoration in the nineteeth century. Western powers have always overlooked this trend to their detriment, constantly romanticizing the Chinese and the Indians beyond all sense or reason. This western myopia continues to this day, what with all of this blather about China and India by western intellectuals, diplomatic careerists, and socialist economists, disgregarding the fact that the Japanese already have the second largest GDP of any nation on earth, second only to the US. What could be better than a US-Japan alliance to secure the Pacific rim?
Ever read " The Coming War With Japan " ? Interesting read ...
Please rewrite Article 9. Please rearm. We need could use Japan's help for protecting Taiwan and against China/North Korea.
I don't see Japan and China uniting with current hostilities.
i love it when folks get religion!
btw, it was a laugh after the l.a. riots when rich hollywood women realized that the police do not exist to protect them, but exist to take reports after murders.
so these ladies got guns to protect themselves.
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