Kishida, new U.S. envoy Emanuel affirm importance of alliance at 1st meeting

I wonder of U.S. envoy Emanuel could affirm importance of such alliance by agreeing to allow Japan build an air force base on US territory off the Pacific ocean's coast!

They will also work toward realizing a world free of nuclear weapons,

The US signed an agreement with Russia to destroy both Chemical weapons' arsenals. Russia did & provided evidence. The US kept temporizing & coming up with different excuses for the delay until Russia finished destroying its weapons. After that US stopped even responding to Russia's multiple demands for the Americans to fulfil their obligations. The last thing world should believe is American desire of a nuclear-free world. They are the only country that used nuclear weapons against Japanese sleeping cities.

glad to see these statesmen have their priorities straight..... cosplay!

Abe sempai, mite! I got a cool jersey from Amerika-jin! It even has my name on it!

Kakkoii ne Fumi kun, who did you say gave this to you?

Some guy from Chicago that came in to fill in a spot that I didn't even know was open for 2 years...

Kishida has no choice as the LDP was created by the CIA.

jersey numbers of 100+ are given to developmental players in Japanese baseball.

Strike one.

Not exactly headline news, pretty much standard stuff for a first ambassadorial meeting with political head of long standing ally.

Is there any need for TWO jerseys to be presented to Kishida - one Cubs and one White Sox? Choose one and get on with it.

Emanuel’s hometown gift of Chicago’s “100” calls to mind a great charity, the “100 Club of Illinois, providing aid & support to the surviving families of fallen first responders. Rahm left Chicago is a storm of gun-violence and his successor Lori Lightfoot’s ‘answer’ was to defund the police by $80million. Days later, 2 more officers fell to gun violence and she had the audacity to go to the hospital when police unions warned her not to. Now, Chicago’s floundering mayor is begging the federal government for help & intervention. Smile behind those masks and sleep well, career politicians, while the indigent and ‘true’ public servants continue to die because of your ill-conceived ideas.

I just kept reading about North Korea and China... It’s all about those two bad boys huh ...

Affirming it is the first step in renouncing it. If the occupiers felt comfortable they wouldn't need to "affirm it".

Emanuel is just another utterly corrupt politician, a pal of Uncle Joe…Once more Japan has been insulted.

The US signed an agreement with Russia to destroy both Chemical weapons' arsenals. Russia did & provided evidence. The US kept temporizing & coming up with different excuses for the delay until Russia finished destroying its weapons. After that US stopped even responding to Russia's multiple demands for the Americans to fulfil their obligations. The last thing world should believe is American desire of a nuclear-free world. 

not according to Arms Control.Org. Russia has the most Chemical weapons.

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/cbwprolif

The United States destroyed 91.5% of their stock piles and will complete it in 2023.

Kishida is playing for both teams.

Its a shame it looks like Kishida and Emanuel are busy goofing around !

and there's no details as to how they will accomplish such lofty goals and dreams.

Rahm Emanuel has a reputation of a snake!! Do not trust him no matter what he says. He will stab you in the back as long as he believes it will make him more wealthy. DO NOT TRUST HIM!!!!

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The United States destroyed 91.5% of their stock piles and will complete it in 2023.

The agreement was not to destroy 91.5% but all 100%. For the last 5 years the US didn't destroy one single weapon for no reason whatsoever. Why to wait till 2023? bearing in mind that Russia had more than twice the stockpile of the US & they destroyed their last weapon on September 27, 2017.

By the way: the remaining 8.5% are 3500 tons of the deadly weapon.

**WOW!!!!! **WHAT A JOKE! THIS RAHM EMANUEL GUY IS NOTHING BUT A CARDBOARD STAND IN DO NOTHING POLITICIAN. SHAME ON JAPAN IT SAD THEY ALLOWED THE US TO SEND THEM A DUMB BRICK TO BE IN SUCH A POSITION. THE US SENT A 'ANYBODY' DEAD WEIGHT!

They will also work toward realizing a world free of nuclear weapons, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

If Japan expects this guy to help them with realizing anything dealing with weapons I suggest they go back and look at the time Emauel was the mayor of CHICAGO and ask him how many guns he removed from the city gangs, guns increased so did crime and drugs use.

Emanuel told reporters afterward he will work "wholeheartedly" for the alliance so that it continues to build on its strong foundation and for the Indo-Pacific region.

As mayor of chicago he couldn't get the city government to solve the city problems, taxes went up crime went up even garbage collection went up. The city couldn't solve the equation 2+2 under his watch Emanuel did nothing.

"I hope for your success in various fields and areas during your term in Japan to further enhance the Japan-U.S. relationship," the prime minister said.

What a joke success in various fields ask the people of Chicago what success he has and I guarantee you this guy had MORE FAILURE than success. I am sorry Japan the US sent you a CARD BOARD STAND IN. It was best to just leave the position open as it had been for the past 2 years

I am hopeful that the former White House Chief of Staff (Jan 2020 to

Oct 2021) under President Obama has the right skillset to manage the huge Embassy of the US in Tokyo, and to coordinate US -- Japan relations expertly. I expect the professionals

at the US Embassy to support him well.

I trust that he will find more success in this role than in his former position as Mayor of Chicago, where I guess he did not find unified support to bolster his mayorship.

“Fighto!Feb. 4  06:40 pm JST

Is there any need for TWO jerseys to be presented to Kishida - one Cubs and one White Sox? Choose one and get on with it.”

possible answer. Your special, your great, now do our bidding or else! Watch Kishida’s DAVOS rant about the “great reset” before thumbing me down.

There are two Americans being abused by the system.

Both Kelly and Taylor need help.

Emanuel is the only hope.

The World will never be free of nuclear weapons, as long as the US has them. How can the US expect North Korea, China, Russia, etc to give up their Nuclear Weapons if the United States won't give up theirs?

How can the US trust that Russia and China will honestly give up all of their their nuclear weapons if the US gives up theirs first?

Japan and all other right thinking Asian nations including Australia and Taiwan need to stand up to Chinese aggression

If it means closing the borders to prevent uncivilized Chinese hordes from traveling in and disrupting the existing civil order, so be it.

let it be known that this strategy is purely designed to check Chinese over reach, and not general xenophobia as is sometimes claimed.

"Kishida, new U.S. envoy ....l affirm importance of alliance at 1st meeting"

This headline is incorrect in that 'alliance' presupposes a free choice by the various 'allies' and NOT military occupation and latent promises of severe punishment for disobedience. Perhaps this demonstrated BULLY was sent to quash any resistances that might be arising within Nihon's political establishment in continuing America's greed fueled attempts to bully and hogtie China and smash the disobedient bug Bukhan.

And regarding Lightfooot's mayorship of Chicago, she inherited a basketful of festering sores from that clown before her and has to spend her time fixing what he broke, not to mention that it is the police who bank the fires of hatred and raise the frustrations and profound desperation of the People of Chicago which they then take out on each other.

Whatever country's welfare current American foreign policy is designed to benefit, it's not America's. We are driving the Mideast away. China and Russia, neighbors, are enjoying the closest ties facing a common threat they have enjoyed in years, America is shouting its hypocrisy as it condemns "Human rights abuses" all over the world EXCEPT in the most racially abused place onplanet, Palestine and its barbed wire and concrete walled and ever shrinking CONCENTRATION CAMPS. As an American, I can only apologize and say "Beware your ALLIES" as you would beware infection with a POX.

The World will never be free of nuclear weapons, as long as the US has them. How can the US expect North Korea, China, Russia, etc to give up their Nuclear Weapons if the United States won't give up theirs?

The problem that prevents complete nuclear disarmament is the ease with which a nation could cheat and hold all the other honest nations hostage. It is possible perhaps to verifiably reduce nuclear arsenals to a smaller number of weapons and their delivery systems, but there is no possible way to know with certainty that every nation that ever possessed a nuclear weapon is not hiding a few somewhere. The cheater would be able to hold everyone else hostage at some point in the future of their choosing. If nations are allowed, oh say, 100 or 200 total nuclear warheads, someone hiding six or ten somewhere isn't going to be able to use nuclear blackmail against a foe. But if all but one nuclear power completely disarmed but one cheater managed to hid half a dozen warheads somewhere, a perfectly reasonable possibility, then that cheater can hold everyone else hostage to their demand because they are the sole nuclear power. Arms reduction is possible but not the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.