Suga says Japan will cooperate with G7 to stop Afghanistan from becoming hotbed of terrorism

Asked if Tokyo is willing to accept refugees from Afghanistan, Suga did not give a clear answer, saying only: “Japan will cooperate with other involved nations while paying attention to the situation each country faces.”

i.e. Japan will accept no refugees.

The more things change...

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How exactly??? I have not seen Japan stop anything so far domestically nor internationally. Japan can't even stop China from going near Japanese islands nor NK/Chinese ships fishing in Japanese waters. Therefore, look at this statement as a load of hot air coming from a paper tiger!

Japan and the G-7 will be reduced to mere observers, peering into the sandbox of Afghanistan, wondering what is going on. Drones, spy agencies, and satellites are not much use, when you need to reach into the minds and learn what people are thinking.

The only intelligence will come from traders permitted to do business; captured terrorists; refugees and escapees from the Taliban or ISIS-K regimes; and border people living in the neighbouring "'stans", who have their own motivations. A few of those who escaped might be encouraged to return and spy, a doomed occuation, as they will stick out easily, and have no family ties.

Japan's love of concreting everything in sight might lead to a big wall surrounding the place!

Such a G7 cooperation seems to be rather late or just shows again its uselessness. Afghanistan (and western Pakistan too) has been all the time and still is a hotbed for terrorists , islamists and djihadists. And now it’s all even spreading into all directions under the cover of so-called evacuations, nicely overpainted with heart-warming burka women and children photographs while the rest of the plane is full with hundreds of young fighter men , now bringing again everywhere what you couldn’t manage to contain while having been there for decades.

Hot air. G7 can now do NOTHING about whatever transpires in Afghanistan. What they going to do? Impose sanctions? Talk them into Compliance?

Pakistan still remains a hotbed of terrorism with a weak central government where most of the power is held by local warlords. What makes Afghanistan a unique case?

Why would Japan accept refuges from Afghanistan? Let alone the difficulty in determining refugee status. The war in Afghanistan has been ongoing for 20 years. No one applied for refugee status during that time period? The country responsible for the fiasco in Afghanistan is the USA and all willing NATO allies - who should bear the burden of refugees.

A better tact would be to engage in diplomatic relations and trade, in order to apply pressure. However, as an example, one might look to the persecution of the Uyghurs in China - who number well over a million and the rather tepid response of the West and Japan.

The only help that counts to the Anti-Japan crowd is if we Take in Refugees.

Any other help doesn't count.

Money, food, medicine Doesn't matter. Doesn't count. They have to be on Japanese land for the foreigner to count it as sincere.

You take them in. Your the melting pot, remember. Your country broke Afghanistan. Caused all this problems. Then run away in this fashion.

Why Japan should bother at all? Japan is the only G7 country that did not participate in the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. Let the rest G7 and other invaders deal with the problem. You broke it - you own it.

G7 is responsible for this in the first place.

Japan has better chance cooperating with Russia and China and Pakistan.

What they going to do? Impose sanctions? 

Yes, the Taliban are already sanctioned by the UN going back to 1999 when bin Lads was harboured there. But there are already talks to sanction them even more unless they jump through the right hoops.

Imagine that though, sanctioning some of the world's poorest people after they have been fighting a war for 20+ plus years (many longer) for your own political gain.

Regime change comes next.

Wow! I can sleep safely in my futon knowing that Japan is going to cooperate with G7 to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a hotbed of terrorism! (Sarcasm)

Especially after the U.S.A. has gifted the Taliban with even MORE state of the art weaponry!

@Asakaze

Why Japan should bother at all? Japan is the only G7 country that did not participate in the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. Let the rest G7 and other invaders deal with the problem. You broke it - you own it. The Japan understands the game they have no choice but to "Sing in the Choir" to say they will support the G7 if not when China, Russia and or NK started thumping Japans chest then what will your thoughts be? Even though you say You broke it - you own it. In this case Japan didn't break or own but they know they better have some thoughts to try to fix it and if not be left out in the cold to fend for themselves!

@kaimycahl

The Japan understands the game they have no choice but to "Sing in the Choir"

That's the problem. Japan is politically spineless and always pays for others' wild "parties".

when China, Russia and or NK started thumping Japans chest then what will your thoughts be?

Russia is not a threat, territorial dispute with it is just a diplomatic nuisance. NK is not a big threat, NK won't invade Japan, and its missiles can be dealt with. China is a real threat, but Japan can handle it.

left out in the cold to fend for themselves!

In case of real problems with China G7 won't provide any help to Japan except some of words of encouragement (not very loud, as not to make China angry).

@Asakaze

its missiles can be dealt with. 

Absolutely not. NK can easily nuke Tokyo if Kim wished and there is nothing Japan can do to stop it.

When Suga says "Japan will cooperate", he means we will send a boat load of our taxpayer's money. You can count on it.

Sven AsaiAug. 26  09:59 am JST

Such a G7 cooperation seems to be rather late or just shows again its uselessness. Afghanistan (and western Pakistan too) has been all the time and still is a hotbed for terrorists , islamists and djihadists.

The USA funded and supported a coalition conglomerate to bog down, wear down and force the Soviets to abandone Afghanistan in the 80s. The Communist puppet president the USSR installed was overthrown and killed in 1992. This coalition included these islamist fanatical scum and in the ensuing anarchy they won.

9/11 happened. Bin Laden is finally killed by Navy SEALs. And now these Taliban yahoos are doing a blitzkrieg, and they have been getting bounties paid by Russia for every US soldier dead. Trump the traitor said zero about it because he's a sputnik. That made this whole war untenuable and pointless, there's no hope of even winning. It's a total waste of time, lives, money, material.

And this week is Saigon 2. All this stupid war did was delay the inevitable. Afghanistan is going to be a totalitarian theocracy like our so-called allies in Saudi Arabia and like in Iran whose leaders are nobody's friends.

Japan is interested with Afghanistan's minerals and natural resources only! She rarely takes in refugees,like other G7 member does! Japan always us,a gold digger but running away from humanitarian responsibility ! All the statement they made were lip service! Never take it seriously!

@Samit Basu

Absolutely not. NK can easily nuke Tokyo if Kim wished and there is nothing Japan can do to stop it

Absolutely incorrect. NK does not have deployable nuclear warheads. There is a big difference between a nuclear device that can be exploded in an underground tunnel and a nuclear warhead installed on a ready-to-launch missile.