Facing reality maybe.
The stark policy turnaround comes after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in August that Japan would look at developing next-generation reactors, instructing the industry ministry to set up a policy plan to widen use of nuclear energy by the end of this year.
That’s a big jump.
In the financial year to March 2021, nuclear accounted for 3.9% of Japan’s power mix, with the government aiming to boost it to as much as 22% by 2030.
Prior to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Japan had generated 30% of its electrical power from nuclear reactors and planned to increase that share to 40%. Nuclear power energy was a national strategic priority in Japan.
dummies.
Taiwan still driving itself off an energy cliff.
Their navy is already kick ass.
More on Japan’s return to nuclear power.
Hmm, Japan taking a bit of a lead on protecting Taiwan.
That’s our fault
Also, I love Japan.
I have too much to say about Japan.
It can’t be contained in one thread.
I like Japan fine but the weebs are so annoying.
Time to talk to the Big Guy.
After this article, I’d say they should talk. Dunno if the author, who teaches in Japan, is a shill or has his thumb on the pulse of the new Japan.
The Japanese people are increasingly fed up with the charade, are increasingly able to see through the dog-and-pony show known as the “Japan-U.S. alliance.” Prime Minister Kishida is opening the money spigots—money Japan doesn’t have—to prop up that farce. It is a rising sum.
But I think it will prove useless in the end. Either the people here will break the spell of the postwar, demand real security, and decide to defend their country by themselves, or the CCP will hit us first and all hell will break loose. One way or the other, a reckoning comes in post-postwar Japan. No budget in the world can prepare this country for that.
This isn’t surprising really, given the Japanese submarine capability.
The ships of the two countries, with the support of anti-submarine aviation, jointly searched for a submarine of a conditional enemy and fired a volley of jet depth charges,” Russia’s defense ministry said, according to Reuters.
Who’s the blame for the buildup? Guess.
And this is a nice piece about China’s recent fish killing wars game with the dreaded Rooshins.
Why all the hubbub? Imma go with this:
Japan’s new National Security Strategy has called for new missile systems – including U.S.-made Tomahawks – to be deployed on the islands in the region. From those locations, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces could be able to strike targets in North Korea as well as mainland China.
ONe more and I’m crawling out of that rabbit hole. lol
Using the great training areas both on the ground and in the waters off the coast of southern California, planners for Steel Knight 23 tried their best to challenge the military to fight over vast distances against a near-peer adversary with a heavy focus on sea denial missions.
Something tells me China’s fancy new boats will be turned around by the Coast Guard, and if that doesn’t work, well…
Ooorah
More on the Tomahawks.
The hawkish view on Japan’s rearming: Do more.
YOu gotta have friends to build a great nautical wall.
In short, the allies are harnessing their own advantages. One hopes their nautical Great Wall proves so forbidding that it deters China from trying to breach it. If so we will never learn who wins when home team meets home team on the field of battle.
And not knowing will be fine.
This might be interesting.
Case study: the removal of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Indeed, it is a classical case of applying the old lone wolf template.
I. Modus Operandi
Any psyops that aims at turning a target into a deadly hitman while retaining sufficient rational thinking to succeed in its designated mission, is a delicate balance of manipulation and deceit.
An art perfected only by the ▄▄▄▄ puppet masters of the ▄▄▄.
It consists through successive minor actions, covering several decades, to push the target ever closer to the point of no return.
Starting with family collapse, college drop out, financial ruin, social isolation, and finally professional failure, the target will have ever fewer options but to accomplish its preprogrammed task set even before he was born by the ▄▄▄.
II. Indictment
The difficult part now. The motivation leading to the violent mediatic removal of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The forensic incriminating evidence presented above shows beyond doubts that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tried not only to oppose the change of Japan’s status to a mere second-rate power after its demotion in 2010, but even dared to push for an upgrade to a full superpower status, including a permanent seat at the U.N. Security Council.
He and the Japanese conservatives behind him were no longer willing to accept Japan remaining a diplomatic dwarf, and worse losing its number one place as both the Asian economic and military leader to China by 2010.
The 2013 picture of Shinzo Abe with the allusion to Unit 731 was meant to remind the world the critical role played by the Empire of Japan in developing and weaponizing directed energy weapons and mind-control technologies in Manchukuo.
And the debt owed by the U.S. ▄▄▄ to Unit 731’s contribution in the subsequent ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄from 1945 onward.
This fatal mistake was enough to cause not only the fall in disgrace of Shinzo Abe but also warrant a death sentence, as many of the ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄’s ▄▄▄ would have be angered by the promotion of the State of Japan to a military and diplomatic superpower.
Among them, certainly and mainly Russia, a weakened former superpower and only 5th economy in the world, fallen far behind Japan’s 3rd economy in the world.
A desperate situation as the military occupation of several Japanese core territories since 1945 by Russia, but never recognized by any international treaty, and the lack of even a peace treaty, worsening the bilateral relations between the two powers, would provide a casus belli allowing a military conflict in the future, if Japan were to regain its independence from its U.S. ▄▄▄.
To a lesser degree, China and the Koreas could be some other nations that would oppose unleashing Japan.
But above all and most probably, the ▄▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄▄.
Indeed, by opening the Pandora’s Box to the Japanese request, other powers of the Axis defeated at the end of the WW2 would have followed: Germany and Italy, then Hungary, Austria, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Iraq, Persia, Spain, Mongolia, Tibet, Siam, etc.
All demanding to become nuclear and ballistic military powers, with diplomatic autonomy freed from the Washington’s ▄▄▄, and in the case of Germany and Italy, a permanent seat at the U.N. Security Council.
Thus threatening in the long term the survival of the ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄.
III. Execution
After nearly a decade of waiting on the death row, Shinzo Abe’s death sentence was finally carried out in broad daylight and public view, on 8th July 2022 at 11:30 JST, exactly 85 years after the beginning of the Empire of Japan’s full scale invasion war on China, officially marked as the 7th July 1937 (23:00 CST) Marco Polo Bridge Incident also known as July 7 Incident.
A dedicated craft-produced, high-caliber, muzzle-loading, double-barrel smoothbore weapon, using separate-loading ammunition initiated by an electric firing mechanism was used in the execution.
Shot from only a few meters distance, with a direct hit of projectiles on the defendant’s chest, immediately causing massive internal injuries and bleedings in the right side of the neck, left clavicle and heart.
After his instantaneous collapse on the pavement, the defendant would never get up again while remaining fully conscious.
No coup de grace was administered by the executioner, ensuring five and a half hours of a slow and painful agonizing countdown, until clinical death could be finally pronounced by the coroner.
This was to make sure no misunderstanding could remain among the Japanese far-right supporters of the defendant’s revisionist military policy, about the severity of the offense.
That’s big bucks.
Combined with recently released major security policy documents, including the National Defense Strategy, the Defense Buildup Plan and the National Security Strategy, the moves collectively signal Tokyo’s commitment to becoming a stabilizing force in its region and playing a more proactive role as a global power in the 21st century.
Japan’s announcement to provide OSA assistance, while useful in strengthening military and security ties with developing countries, is bound to get off to a rocky start. Not only does Japan have to follow its own rules, which could limit how the recipients use any Japanese-made military hardware. The pricing for Japanese military hardware is also another concern since not all developing countries may have the financial capacity to purchase them, even if they want to. More solutions will be needed to lower the financial risk for OSA recipients to acquire Japanese military hardware. But as for not allowing the purchase of said hardware in an international conflict, it remains to be seen if this can continue to be upheld if and when the international security environment continues to change.
I think the rules will be suspended at the first sign of Chinese warishness, not aggression, but something irreversible. Japanese Machiavellian militancy will ramp up fast, imo.