Posted on 05/06/2016 5:33:33 PM PDT by Mariner
Japan's ambassador to the United States weighed in on the U.S. presidential election debate on Friday by arguing against the "America first" stance of Republican candidate Donald Trump and stressing the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance.
Without mentioning Trump by name, the envoy, Kenichiro Sasae, told a Washington forum Japan had come up unexpectedly in the election debate, showing that nothing could be taken for granted in terms of the long-standing alliance.
"In the presidential elections, there are arguments whether the United States is going for the isolationist stance," Sasae said. "I don't want to see that kind of United States.
"I want to see the United States to be strong and come with a strong robust position, not really thinking of the United States only," he said.
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the Nov. 8 presidential election, has portrayed Japan, a long-time treaty ally of the United States, as a free-rider on security. He has suggested Tokyo might need nuclear weapons to ease U.S. financial commitment to its defense, anathema to the only country ever attacked by atomic bombs.
Japan's Minister for Regional Revitalization, Shigeru Ishiba, said comments by one candidate, who he said he would not name, were causing "a lot of concern in Japan."
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I think I would have confronted that spitting Jap with spreading my arms like a B-29 then yelling, “KABOOM!!!”
;^)
Who gives a rats behind!?
They aren’t American so these people can pound sand!
I think that Trump is a bit wrong here. Toyota,Nissan, Honda and Mazda all have US factories. Japanese companies build a lot of stuff in the US. The Toyota Camry is the most American car on the market if you trace the origin of the parts.
It’s been those liberal revisionist history writers that said a portion of the US was Mexico. Any Mexican Indian crossing the Rio would have had Apaches and Navajo’s greeting them. Mexicans today are the byproduct of Spanish soldiers, half Spanish and half Anasazi, Hohokam, Mogollon to name a few tribes..
Well since I was in their country/city ... Hiroshima was a fascinating place; went to the memorial museum with lots of artifacts. I’ve several pictures of a diorama (quite large, maybe twenty feet square) depicting the before and after views of the city. I stood right at ground zero (scooped up some ground zero sand/dirt in a small container) and was jut awestruck.
Is it true a person can be arrested for bringing American rice into Japan?
Thank You.
Now if the Japanese choose to be racist and isolationist as part of their culture...fine. I do not begrudge them that.
But just don’t accuse US of the same!
It’s the old “pot-Kettle” thing.
When spoiled kids have their gravy train threatened they throw tantrums. Same here.
Thank you. And your screen name is a fine choice as well!
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