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voiceofokinawa
Yubaru,
The pot can't laugh at the kettle by calling it black because the pot is also covered with black soot. I can’t make out why you say so.
Yubaru
Pot kettle black!
voiceofokinawa
So it's wise of Japan not to join in the U.S.-led coalition. But, above all, Japan must not participate in it due to Article 9 of the constitution.
voiceofokinawa
OssanAmerica,
Until you have hard, solid evidence as to who committed the crime, you can't point your finger at someone as the perpetrator of the murder, let alone execute him by hanging. Suspicion alone is no grounds for forming coalition forces and punishment.
OssanAmerica
@voiceofokinawa
At no time has Japan accused Iran, or any other nation, or specific organization of having been behind the previous attacks. Nor have they agreed with the US/UK view. Clarifying who was behind the attacks is not relevant to the JMSDF deployment.
voiceofokinawa
The blurred picture showed masked men in black costumes trying to attach limpet mines on the hull of one of the vessels. The catch is how the U.S. intelligence was able to identify from this cut-out shot that it was the hull of one of the vessels?
voiceofokinawa
OssanAmerica,
On the thread of "Japan may send ships topatrol off Yemen instead of Strait of Hormuz" run on Aug. 9 JT, I commented as follows.
This incident must be clarified once and for all. Did Iran really attack Japanese-flagged oil tankers? For what purposes, when Abe was visiting Iran for talks with Rouhani?
WA4TKG
It is common knowledge many “Protesters” are paid, I’ve actually had someone
say to me they were considering taking a job he saw on Craigs’ List doing just this.
JCosplay
Compromise? More like making an alternative offer the people, especially the US. And not only does it send a message that Japan is not blindly obedient to the world of the US, but through its own will, it can help resolve other problems, that also need addressing as well.
Jandworld
The PM would have been well advised not to chancel but visit India as scheduled.
OssanAmerica
Well Japan isn't participating in any coalition. But deploying the JMSDF to protect Japanese flagged and controlled commercial vessels carrying vitally needed crude from the PG to JPN is certainly an appropriate use of the SDF to protect Japanese lives and property. The deployment is not for the pupose of waging war on anybody, and not to settle any disputes. Japanese ships have been attacked and this is a proper measured response. which does not violate the first paragraph of Article 9.
Asakaze
Why this stupid dramatization? Not "navy", but 1 (one) destroyer. Navy denotes all warships a country has.
voiceofokinawa
Article 9 of the Japanese constitution stipulates that "the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes".
So how could Japan participate in the U.S.-led coalition? Even dispatching war ships to the region seems in violation of this provision.
nandakandamanda
Japanese tankers have been attacked at least twice near the Strait of Hormuz in the last five years. Mysterious explosions near the waterline and not clear who carried out the attacks it is true, but to say that there is no danger there is false.
”Invalid” rubbish three times
OssanAmerica
These people are idiots. How would they feel if their sons were working aboard commercial ships that carried vitally needed energy to Japan? Would they not want them protected? In Japan both the right wing and left wing are off the charts extreme. These protesters are the either the heiwaboke generation and/or sunscribers to Akahata.
Wrong, Japan did have a choice and they made it, If they had no choice, they would have joined the coalition.
gokai_wo_maneku
This is just a tactic to ease the Japanese public into accepting remilitarization and getting rid of Article 9. This is Abe's goal.
umbrella
All very old people having a nice day out getting together in their groups. Young people are too concerned with the latest games and smartphones.
Wallace Fred
Is this a case of that classic oxymoron, 'peace through war'? I don't get the willful ignorance. japan has no choice in the matter. When the master beckons, must follow, no questions asked.
Kazuaki Shimazaki
This title really states the obvious.
Vince Black
Protests are designed to draw attention to the issue the protestors are protesting against, right? I’d say crowd size is probably the most relevant thing about a protest.
Spitfire
Oldman,
You are right.
Those 10 protestors certainly aren’t apathetic.
Yrral
Hope they are not headed to Pearl Harbor ,only a child would engage in a foolish adventure, like this
vanityofvanities
It is OK they do protest. It is a proof that Japan is a democratic country. However, I want they also show alternative plans Japan to survive. Otherwise, Japan will be criticized we are on a free lunch and riding free leaving the dangerous jobs to others.
Yubaru
Got to look for it but i would swear that the guy in the suit on the right and the guy with the hat and glasses were in a picture protesting the bases down here in Okinawa!
Maybe they are the leaders of the professional protesters for hire group?
Fighto!
The Japanese mission is purely Pacifist.
Hokkaidoboy
As long as it protects Japanese interests, I see nothing wrong in such deployment of force. Pacifists are kind of naive.
Fighto!
Smart move by the government. The MSDF is there to defend and protect Japanese trade, while continuing excellent relations with the firiendly nation of Iran. They are not there to wage an offensive campaign against Iran, as the US-led coalition is.
Iran definitely did NOT attack Japanese oil tankers. Zero proof. The US is wrong again here. Their intelligence gathering is not great it appears.
oldman_13
Nice picture, once again disproving the notion that 'all' Japanese are apathetic, apolitical beings afraid to speak out and stand against the grain. And the crowd size is absolutely irrelevant.
Akie
Obviously, Abe never compromises with Japanese people.