Ridiculous. A ridiculous man.
Seriously. Even Douglas MacArthur did not cram it up their schnozzes THAT badly!
Uh, maybe Japan’s Constitution is a living document, much like the lefties claim for ours....
Is Biden using the “ROYAL WE”? Actually, General Douglas MacArthur a “REPUBLICAN” had the most to do with setting up Japan’s new government.
At least they didn’t plagiarize it, Joe.
Joe is still living in 1945.
Hey Joe, you’ve cut our military to where they might need to protect themselves.
Watch for a nasty comment from the Japanese over this Biden faux pas. Freaking idiot
This man is a fool.
So the Japanese Constitution is fixed, sacred, permanent, and inviolable. But ours is written on toilet paper and can be sh!t upon daily and discarded at whim?
Typical lib hypocrisy.
Only crazed Iranians, who want to send Israel into the sea, should be allowed to have nukes!
I guess Slow Joe hasn’t updated his knowledge of Asia since the 1945 status quo. With the behavior we see from NK and China, it’s fine with me if Japan has nukes and a much stronger military.
The US can’t be everywhere and be a deterrent to every possible bad outcome in the world.
Let me get this straight. Joe goes to Japan and tells them they cannot have nukes when Japan wants them? Pffft talk about slapping the face of your host.
Someone obviously did.
That someone was obviously NOT Sloe Joe.
When you actually do write somebody’s constitution for them, you never, never, never say you did.
“...neither he [MacArthur] nor his superiors in Washington intended to impose a new political system on Japan unilaterally. Instead, they wished to encourage Japan’s new leaders to initiate democratic reforms on their own. But by early 1946, MacArthur’s staff and Japanese officials were at odds…”
“Much of the drafting was done by two senior army officers…”
“The MacArthur draft, which proposed a unicameral legislature, was changed at the insistence of the Japanese to allow a bicameral one, with both houses being elected. In most other important respects, the government adopted the ideas embodied in the 13 February document in its own draft proposal of 6 March. These included the constitution’s most distinctive features: the symbolic role of the Emperor, the prominence of guarantees of civil and human rights, and the renunciation of war.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan
>OUR goal was a liberal, democratic form of government, with the Emperor reduced to a Constitutional monarch, and with the guarantee of certain rights such as equal rights of women.
THEY introduced the renunciation of war (as we in the west have read it, but which they now say means only the renunciation of offensive war), which we included in the draft.
SO, BOTTOM LINE, yes we did write, in the sense of draft their constitution, THEY amended the draft in several important ways. IN PARTICULAR, the renunciation of war was THEIR idea, not something we originated, when we wrote the draft.
Biden was wrong on most accounts.
Nuclear Power? Japan has plenty of Nuclear Power Plants.
Wouldn’t their Constitution prevent them from developing those, especially after the Godzilla incident?
The last thing you want to do is insult your allies.
Except if you’re 0bama and his regime.
5.56mm
Is joe running for prez? He’s been high viz lately
Hey, Shotgun Joe:
A Democrat president outlawed Japan’s state RELIGION on Dec. 15, 1945.
“...He’s not qualified to know the [nuclear] codes,” the U.S. vice president said. ...”
This, from the f*cking IDIOT who pointed out the Secret Service guy WITH the codes, behind him.
Nice. Real nice. No wonder the world is laughing at us, between this “Special Kind of Moron” and the Golf Champ.