Japan recently made a push to acquire nuclear weapons to counter North Korea. The reason is if North Korea nuked them it is unlikely America would nuke back for them. They are exposed and they know it. Japan is a virtual superpower and could develop rocket delivered nuclear weapons in days, but is barred from doing so having lost WW2.
I'm against Japan re-arming themselves because I don't think their sucker punch first strike disposition has been watered down in their genetics or culture sufficiently. Japanese are very outwardly polite but they are still a closed society and privately they still think of themselves as the master race. The general nation-wide taste for sadistic pornography is something to ponder.
The brain thinks in generalizations, that's how it works. It develops a feel for probabilities when making all decisions. People flip out when probabilities are applied to people because they don't like to be stereotyped. But I'm not the first to notice Japanese pornography in general is something odd. And Germany is not far behind. My concern is the general overall theme of it. There's something going on there.
No they did not. They did say they would consider changing the Constitutional restrictions on their military, and that they would increase their ability to thwart agression from North Korea; and they also said they have no plans to develop a nuclear arsenal.
"Japanese are very outwardly polite but they are still a closed society and privately they still think of themselves as the master race."
Less than half right. The Japanese are polite and yes, compared to the US they are a homogeneous society; and to their credit in my view, unlike some suicidal Europeans, they would like to remain one - as do the Koreans, the Philippinos, the Thai, the Burmese, the Combodioans and many other Asians, and a few outside of Asia. People mistake the modern view of nationalism that is developing, in which homogeneous nations remain so and remain cooperative neighbors and trading partners without any need to go a-conquering vs the nationalism of old in which conquering others was not only commonplace, but considered a necessary aspect of "nationalism". Throughout Asia, with the exception of China (modern day Germany in my view) such aggressive nationalistic sentiments do not represent majorities.
The only racist information you have revealed is your racist view of the Japanese - who do not think of themselves as a "master race", while I cannot the same for some others in Asia today.
I think it is long overdue for Japan to assume a larger role in our collective security agreements in the East Asian region. Their foreign aid has been securing a lot of friendships, but they are not carrying the weight of their own economy in aiding the security structure that will defend those friendships, which are allies of ours as well.
The only Asian nation with which the US has any fatal security conflicts on the horizan is China, which will take us to war over Taiwan, once the American consumer has paid in enough dollars to make their military ready for it. It is not a matter of IF but WHEN.