Kishida vows to strengthen alliance with U.S.

Careful Japan, it's a trap, don't sell your soul..

Look at Kishida's smug face. This was the guy who early on was described as "dovish".

Japan's ideology as a nation aligns with the US and Allies. Not with the Chinese dictatorship. Posting purile comments on the internet daily isn't going to change that one iota.

If Japan is not going to develop a suitable deterrent capability, this is the only option.

Japan is worthless to America,but grubbling to their knees

Japan is just a colony of the USA. This is just pathetic.

Forced by the USA to not be allowed to defend themselves then forced to grovel to the US for defence.

"U.S. nuclear protection provided to Japan"

What a cynical, ridiculous phrase.

A little over a week to go to the anniversary of the US war crimes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

TheLizardKingToday  08:25 am JST

Forced by the USA to not be allowed to defend themselves then forced to grovel to the US for defence.

Study some history. The US is the one that "forced: Japan to establish the JSDF. Japan has no need to grovel for anything, they can afford it and is a top US ally. DA comments aren't needed.

honest question-did anyone expected different result of that ehm meeting?

honest question-did anyone expected different result of that ehm meeting?

Everyone knows Japan does not have the right to independently decide on any major issues without the permission from the US.

And that the primary task of the U.S. military stationed in Japan has always been to suppress the rise of Japan and protect the security and interests of the United States. The United States knows that the threats of China, Russia and North Korea are behind the threats of Japan's militarization.

And for Japan，the United States' comprehensive economic, technological, military, and cultural exploitation of Japan is the biggest threat to its survival far greater than the so called China threat.

Kishida vows to 

talk and achieve no results. We’ve heard this already.

Deterrence is the way to go but peaceful means surpasses everything else.

Japan-US, brothers in arms, always forever

Whenever Japan vows to strengthen ties with the U. S. it means more sacrifice for Okinawa to shoulder. Landfill work in Henoko to construct a so-called replacement for USMC Air Station Futenma will thus be forged ahead despite a strong local opposition and also despite the fact that the new facilities in Henoko to base Ospreys to transport troops have no strategic value to fend off China's missiles.

Whenever Japan vows to strengthen ties with the U. S. it means more sacrifice for Okinawa to shoulder. Landfill work in Henoko to construct a so-called replacement for USMC Air Station Futenma will thus be forged ahead despite a strong local opposition and also despite the fact that the new facilities in Henoko to base Ospreys to transport troops have no strategic value to fend off China's missiles

Okay but what does it do to the economy and how many extra jobs does it create where some are simply just having the need to speak and understand english?

deanzaZZRToday 07:32 am JST

Look at Kishida's smug face. This was the guy who early on was described as "dovish".

Is that around the time that China's rise was described as "peaceful?"

And he certainly is dovish compared to Xi. He's not stealing other countries' territory, ramming and water cannoning their ships, illegally militarizing the South China Sea, employing economic coercion whenever people simply speak the truth etc.

TheLizardKingToday 08:24 am JST

Japan is just a colony of the USA.

It's clearly not, but if you don't like Japan (which is very obvious from your posts), just don't live there anymore. Problem solved.

And, if you don't live in Japan and don't like Japan, why are you posting to a Japan forum? It's very suspicious that some people come on JT just to cheerlead for the CCP, Kremlin etc., don't you think?

ning1983Today 10:12 am JST

Everyone knows Japan does not have the right to independently decide on any major issues without the permission from the US.

Please provide some evidence for this fanciful claim. If not, I and others will dismiss it as the pro-CCP nonsense that it is.

Please provide some evidence for this fanciful claim. If not, I and others will dismiss it as the pro-CCP nonsense that it is.

US President Biden said in 2016：It was the United States that wrote the Japanese Constitution.

ning1983Today 01:37 pm JST

US President Biden said in 2016：It was the United States that wrote the Japanese Constitution.

And how exactly is that evidence that "Japan does not have the right to independently decide on any major issues without the permission from the US?"

Kishida needs to visit Washington to drink more wine again-get that liver in shape Kishi san!

Look at US activities overseas, directly, indirectly, in the past and in the present.

Currently funding a genocide against brown people ,AGAIN, this time in Gaza, at the hands of the murderous Israel war machine.

Maybe the Us alliances are like the ones Dracula has with his underlings....once bitten you enter the world of the Dracul ....never to see daylight again.

TheLizardKingToday 08:25 am JST

Forced by the USA to not be allowed to defend themselves

I believe some sources are in order from living memory when the US has pushed Japan not to develop a weapon.

ning1983Today 10:12 am JST

And for Japan，the United States' comprehensive economic, technological, military, and cultural exploitation of Japan is the biggest threat to its survival far greater than the so called China threat.

US troops obey Japanese law when stationed there. I highly suspect PLA occupiers of Okinawa will not be under the same restrictions.

ning1983Today 01:37 pm JST

US President Biden said in 2016：It was the United States that wrote the Japanese Constitution.

We're believing Biden wholeheartedly now? The article 9 was at the urging of former PM Shidehara.

Real question mark over the sovereignty of Tokyo and their territory. This is not how a self-respecting country operates, which is more akin to a comprador. Proxy agents don't have the right to demand islands off other people, particularly when it is UN recognised. Vassals needs to understand their place in the world.

JJEToday 03:37 pm JST

Real question mark over the sovereignty of Tokyo and their territory. This is not how a self-respecting country operates, which is more akin to a comprador. Proxy agents don't have the right to demand islands off other people, particularly when it is UN recognised. Vassals needs to understand their place in the world.

UN recognized countries are entitled to their territorial integrity, a fact Russia never seems to grasp.

JJEToday 03:37 pm JST

Real question mark over the sovereignty of Tokyo and their territory.

"Important to keep in mind" that this was written by a known pro-Kremlin poster.

"Important to keep in mind" that Japan and the rest of the world don't seem to have any issues with the sovereignty of Tokyo and its territory.

"Important to keep in mind" that Japan and the rest of the world don't seem to have any issues with the sovereignty of Tokyo and its territory.

Incorrect. All of Tokyo's immediate neighbours have issues with their claims. In two cases it wants islands postwar constitutional Japan never had sovereignty over, in the other uninhabited islands are disputed.

This can't be a coincidence and is indicative of a vassal state that was once a belligerent state on the losing side of a war and has to hide behind the skirt of their master.

Important to recognize that Russia is completely economically dependent on China is is therefor a vassal state of that country. It wants to claim continuation of a bunch of agreements prior to 1993 despite them being made under a different government that was overthrown.

Important to grasp that narrative is false and gratuitous - UN recognized Russia has trading relationships all around the world and dissolving a bloc is not being overthrown. Atlanticists are just angry that certain countries are pushing back on their we-make-the-rules-based-order and can't accept a multipolar world of equality and decency in which aggressive vassals pay a well-deserved penalty for being manipulated.

Kishida is indicative of this backward mentality. Tokyo is nothing but a little stooge, increasingly irrelevant.

JJEToday 05:25 pm JST

Important to grasp that narrative is false and gratuitous - UN recognized Russia has trading relationships all around the world and dissolving a bloc is not being overthrown. Atlanticists are just angry that certain countries are pushing back on their we-make-the-rules-based-order and can't accept a multipolar world of equality and decency in which aggressive vassals pay a well-deserved penalty for being manipulated.

Kishida is indicative of this backward mentality. Tokyo is nothing but a little stooge, increasingly irrelevant.

Japan has military relationships all around the world. I'm talking the 1993 violent self-coup of Russia not the dissolving of the Soviet Union. Apologists are just angry that Russia will never be a pole and that its many thefts will never be internationally recognized.

JJEToday 05:39 pm JST

Self-coup is not a western backed color revolution.

Oh, so only countries certain commentators like get their rights respected. Consistency is needed.

Yes. Proxies and vassals lack sovereignty and frequently suffer issues.

The true vassals are the people living under the yoke of the Chinese dictatorship. Why else would so many Chinese be emigrating out of China by both legal and illegal means?

JJEJuly 30 05:56 pm JST

Yes. Proxies and vassals lack sovereignty and frequently suffer issues.

As a vassal of China, Russia will suffer untold issues.

Whenever the Philippines is concerned Isabella gets really fired up for some reason. Hmmm

Is China arming genocidal allies? Is China occupying parts of Syria when it has no legal basis to be there. Is China overstaying its welcome in Iraq? Is China gifting arms to a regime it does not even recognize as a sovereign country?

China's foreign policy is way more peaceful than the want-go-be world policeman. Bridging the diplomatic gap between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Brining Palestinian factors together to oppose Zionism. Now that is peaceful.

deanzaZZRToday 03:21 am JST

Is China arming genocidal allies?

It's arming Russia. Arming with cash is nearly as good as arming with weapons.

Is China occupying parts of Syria when it has no legal basis to be there.

It does nothing about Russia's illegal occupations.

Is China overstaying its welcome in Iraq?

No one is overstaying their welcome in Iraq.

Is China gifting arms to a regime it does not even recognize as a sovereign country?

China doesn't have a country with complicated recognition it needs to support.

China's foreign policy is way more peaceful than the want-go-be world policeman.

Not really as we can see by the Phillipines, Taiwan, and Ukraine problems caused by China.

Bridging the diplomatic gap between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Anybody can supply hotel rooms.

Brining Palestinian factors together to oppose Zionism.

If you think Hamas and Fatah are coming together, much laughter is being heard.

Now that is peaceful.

China remains a wolf in sheep's clothing. Fortunately it is out of practice and old.

deanzaZZRToday 03:21 am JST

China's foreign policy is way more peaceful than the want-go-be world policeman.

1) Your constant tu quoque fallacies do not absolve China for its aggression

2) This is Japan Today, and the threat to Japan is China, not the US

The greater fear here is who runs America, not America running Japan. And we all know who they are. They're the group that cannot be named.

The greater fear here is who runs America, not America running Japan.

Well, for the last couple of years nobody really knows, but it sure isn't senile Biden running things in America.

US troops obey Japanese law when stationed there.

So why are we reading about all the sex and other crimes committed by those troops in Okinawa?

Ken: Jul. 30 12:22 pm JST

Good grief. There indeed are some people even among locals who want bases for the sake of their personal profits. They prefer to suck the sweet without working hard.

I once had a telephone call from a self-professed landowner of the Futenma air station, telling me not to publish opinions to oppose U.S. bases. He said he would lose his major source of income if bases were gone.

 Incidentally, do you know that it is the Japanese taxpayers, not U. S. ones, that pay land fees to the landowners, whereby USFJ are using base land completely free of charge?

isabelle:

) Your constant tu quoque fallacies do not absolve China for its aggression

2) This is Japan Today, and the threat to Japan is China, not the US

Quit with the Fu Manchu theatrics, dear. You're not fooling any sane person with your fearmongering and smoke and mirrors. It wasn't China which dropped two big bombs, or handed Japan the Plaza Accord, or force Japan to accept military bases and all the crimes that come with them. It's very sad to see ignorant people brainwashed into believing there's a bogeyman across the sea when the threat is much closer home. But hey, what do I care - China has the most important thing - sovereignty and its own foreign policy. Some other countries don't have that and have no control over its foreign affairs.