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But I don’t have any special insight into why Japan is so conservative.   I don’t study the culture or society the way I study Korean history, culture and language.   Because I can’t read Japanese, i’m limited to English language sources or South Korean reports  about Japan when looking at international relations, diplomatic and military hist…[Read more]

People just get to make claims and publish them without exposing their data to critical analysis by others?

is the gravest mistake one could make.   However, it will be profitable for the arms manufacturers while it lasts.

China and Russia are having a large military exercise in the Caucasus.   With other allies reports say 80,000 troops have been mobilized to participate.   I think it’s a much better idea to let the PLA stay home planting trees and p…[Read more]

Correction Sep 23- My original post above mistakenly identified Nakai Toshihiro as the Chief Cabinet Secretary when he was in fact, retained as LDP Secretary General. Katsunobu Kato, serves as new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s chief cabinet secretary. One of his initial concerns appears to be Chinese military operations in East Sea.*<br />
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@jbnw

Sanctions and other harmful economic moves, restrictions on visas, curtailment of overseas trade and investment in both directions, propaganda, psychological warfare, sedition, black ops, etc.   The damages done are insidious and soften the public making it receptive to overt military conflict.  Arms contractors, their lobbyists, and th…[Read more]

Even if it were even plausible that some just cause existed to go to war with either China or Russia or other  state such as Iran , the US is institutionally  incapable of making such a  choice and instead cultivates war in several theaters simultaneously.

The absolute arrogance and impunity that reflects is something that will be the end of  the…[Read more]

…as an OTR driver.   Usually i was headed to pick up or deliver paper loads from one of the southeast to the other.  Almost invariably it involved stops in Louisiana.   The paper mills are there own special category of toxic pollution.   I tried to avoid spending to much time in the area, reluctant to stop and eat or drink in the area, nor st…[Read more]

Supported by Nippon Kaichi and the LDP.   In their case, the object is conceal Japan’s history of militarism, imperialism, aggression and war crimes.

Tawara shows how the Abe administration’s concept of Kyōiku Saisei [education rebuilding] seeks to overturn the foundations of contemporary education. The 2006 revision of the Fundamental Law of Educ…

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Video is dated 3.26.2019 the Mayor’s birthday celebration at the office. The video is in Korean but the nature of the interaction between the alleged sexual harassment victim and the mayor can be read in any language. The far right’s sinister tactics of smearing leaders of the democratic party in the media and courts knows no bounds. This video…[Read more]

What is the Aim of Nippon Kaigi, the Ultra-Right Organization that Supports Japan’s Abe Administration?¹
Tawara Yoshifumi
November 1, 2017 Asia Pacific Journal
Volume 15 | Issue 21 | Number 1
Article ID 5081

…In a keynote report at the inaugural plenary meeting of the Kokumin Kaigi, then-Steering Committee Chairman Mayuzumi Toshirō out…

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Ever been to Fort Hood?

Thanks @Yanath.   I hadn’t seen these reports before.   This is a good article on Adrian Zenz who is the “source” of the bs reports about “millions” in detention in Xinjiang.    He’s an obvious asset for the usual suspects.   He has zero credibi…[Read more]

…for high office in the US, even the not so high office.

These incidents concerning mentally impaired family members show how inadequate our social services are. A loved one is acting out, and the only recourse is to call untrained people with guns?