Agent_Neo comments

If it is for tourists, then IR should be promoted and revenue should be earned in place of the consumption tax.

Tax exemptions for foreigners are fine either way, but if there are tax exemptions, then there should be no fees to climb Mt. Fuji or prices for foreigners at restaurants.

The abolition of the consumption tax is a welcome development for the Japanese people.

The 10 trillion yen in consumption tax should be covered by gambling!

People who can come to Japan are not refugees.

The problem is that their home countries refuse to take in these criminals.

The Japanese government should be firm in sending illegal immigrants back to their home countries.

Japan has no reason to let them in, and no obligation to support them.

"Shinzo Abe: 'Japan inflicted immeasurable damage and suffering in World War II'

↑This is the difference between what is said and what is actually said, which is unique to the Japanese.

What Japan should reflect on is why it lost the war.

After all, acts of war are nothing more than a form of foreign policy, and emotional arguments are irrelevant.

History is written by the victors, and I think it's just a scapegoat to hide how cruel the colonial rule of the Western countries was.

Compared to the soldiers and civilians of other countries who were killed by the Japanese army in World War II, how many civilians of colonial countries were sacrificed by the colonial rule of the Western powers?

Before we even talk about historical revisionism, there is no way that Japan can simply accept China's propaganda or Korea's fantasy history.

In the first place, it is difficult to say that what China and Korea claim has been historically proven.

China and Korea should produce evidence that clearly shows acts of genocide, like Nazi Germany's oppression of the Jews.

If you want to prove a crime, you need evidence first. This is true whether it's an individual or a country.

The reason why China's Nanjing Massacre and Unit 731, or Korea's comfort women issue did not come up in the Tokyo Trials is because the US military conducted interviews and investigations.

If evidence that overturns that has come to light, I would love to see it.

When I read news from China, I always suspect there's something shady going on.

What illegal business could it be?

Did they give Chinese people Xi Jinping's hairstyle?

It seems that slandering former Prime Minister Abe, even though there has been no judicially proven corruption, was very inconvenient for people who support China and Russia.

If the issue is about ties to religious corporations, I cannot understand why the Komeito Party is not being criticized.

At least in Japanese society, no one would make a fuss even if there were direct ties to religious corporations. That's because the relationship between Soka Gakkai and the Komeito Party is even worse.

For the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, who have not experienced a full-scale war since World War II, a rehearsal or rehabilitation is necessary before suddenly taking to the front lines.

Rather than being bound by Article 9 of the Constitution, we must quickly revise it and fight against invaders.

In Japan, there are very few forest fires that result in fatalities, so firefighting is carried out from the air using helicopters and from land using fire engines, but this is only effective in the early stages.

To completely put out a fire, the deployment of large aircraft would be necessary, but it is unlikely that such aircraft will be introduced in Japan.

Something like this might not have happened under former Prime Minister Abe, but it won't work with Ishiba, who is treated even more lightly than Abe's wife, Akee.

There is no way that Ishiba will be able to provide anything that would benefit America.

I think that if we can accelerate the relocation to Guam by reducing the budget for US forces in Japan, and cover the defense of Japan by the Self-Defense Forces with tax money, then we should do it.

However, before that, we need to implement tax reform and measures to increase people's income, otherwise the burden on the people will only increase and we will not gain any understanding.

During the Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations, which were held in opposition to the Chinese Communist Party's political oppression, at least 2,000 people were detained by the authorities and are "missing."

They oppress anything they don't like. That's the Chinese Communist Party.

In eastern Turkmenistan, they have set up concentration camps where forced labor and ideological control are carried out. What era of totalitarianism is this?

Will promoting democracy lead to criticism of the government?

That is simply because the Chinese Communist Party does not like the idea of ​​people being dissatisfied with the government.

Even if it is a dictatorship, there will be no criticism if the people are satisfied. You are just blaming the executive branch's negligence on democracy.

China's empire has been overthrown many times by peasant rebellions.

It is wrong to suppress the people's dissatisfaction just because you are afraid of that.

In other words, they don't like it because promoting democracy leads to frequent dissatisfaction in dictatorships and communist countries are overthrown. That's easy to understand lol

It will be difficult for China and Korea, which cannot understand the meaning of treaties between countries, to build friendly relations with Japan, a country governed by law.

If they are dissatisfied with what happened in World War II, they should not have made a treaty with Japan. Russia has not yet made a peace treaty with Japan. This is because World War II has not been resolved.

I wonder if there are many Chinese people who have forgotten that China invaded Vietnam? The only countries that welcome China are those in Africa, where it receives economic aid, and some Asian countries that love corruption.

＠Mr Kipling

What exactly does it mean to promote democracy?

That's a typical Chinese way of nitpicking.

The worst-case scenario would be a Great Kanto Earthquake triggering an eruption of Mount Fuji. In fact, the two phenomena have occurred together before.

The government must prepare for further disasters.

However, 19 million people live in the Kanto region alone, and evacuation efforts may not be easy.

Foreign trainees are not able to do regular work and are nominally here for training, so their wages are low. In some cases, they have to pay a fee to an employment agent in their home country, so their actual wages are surprisingly low.

Japanese people who do not accept foreigners are often criticized, but Japanese people are fed up with foreigners who do not try to blend in with the local community and unilaterally impose their own culture and customs on people.

No matter how much the government makes no effort to solve the declining birthrate problem and accepts foreigners, Japanese people will have a limit to their tolerance.

Even if former Prime Minister Abe had not been assassinated, this issue would have been one of the reasons for the LDP being criticized.

This is because former believers have already filed a lawsuit and it is an issue that is socially recognized.

If it is not acceptable for the LDP to ask religious organizations for cooperation in gathering votes during elections, why does no one say anything about the Komeito Party?

If they are going to strictly separate religion and state, then they should definitely ban Komeito organized votes as well.

If the sex industry were brought back under state control, as in Germany, not only would taxes be collected, but it would also eliminate one of the losses in income for the yakuza.

If gambling were also brought under state control in the same way, consumption tax could also be abolished, so I think that would be better economically as well.

Many people don't seem to understand why Trump made the Ukraine peace agreement and wanted Putin, who has influence over Iran, to mediate on Iran.

Unlike Biden, Trump is not incompetent.

It was not uncommon in the news that parents who were obsessed with pachinko would leave their young children in the car and die.

There may have been cases of suicide, but I have never heard of anyone dying at an online casino.

It is well known in Japan that pachinko is a source of funding for North Korea. It has even been on the agenda at the United Nations.

Collusion between pachinko industry groups and the police has also been in the news. https://facta.co.jp/article/201608015.html

Can the current Ishiba administration negotiate with the US?

They may buy more American weapons, but former Prime Minister Abe would refuse to increase the amount. Sell them Tomahawks, please.

There have been moves to nationalize casinos in Japan as well, but few municipalities have been able to make it a reality.

Banning them would not reduce the number of people playing, and it has been reported that more than $12 billion is spent on them every year, so pachinko, which already exists, should be nationalized quickly.

Incidentally, the pachinko industry has become a place for police officers to retire to, so I think it should be nationalized as well. It is also said that they are being used as a resource for missile development in North Korea and other countries, so it would be best to use them as a source of funding for Japanese taxes.

Did the war start at Pearl Harbor? lol

Do Americans who didn't receive a proper history education think that way?

If the US government hadn't given military aid to China, hadn't banned oil from Japan, and hadn't made the Yellow Peril theory so popular, it would have been easy for the US government to avoid war with Japan.

The US government wanted war, and pushed Japan into a corner both economically and diplomatically. That's the facts.

To America, soldiers and civilians alike are just targets.

In Vietnam and Iraq, the American way was to massacre civilians along with their troops.

In fact, they destroyed the city of Hiroshima along with American prisoners of war with an atomic bomb.

America should not be thought of as an army that upholds justice.

Treaties mean nothing.

Since it was America that carried out the Tokyo Air Raid, I think we should make a claim against America, but does that mean that there is no right to make a claim in the first place?

China has given up its right to make a claim as a nation, but it has not given up its right to make a claim as an individual Chinese citizen. It is still possible for Chinese people to sue Japan for damages caused during World War II.

On the other hand, Japan has continued to support China through ODA, but the Chinese government has never made it public. Also, 200 million dollars of tax money is spent every year on living expenses for Chinese students studying abroad. Japan is the only country in the world that values ​​Chinese students more than its own citizens.

It is only thanks to the technology provided by Japan that China has been able to compete with America to a certain extent as it is today.

It is also said that the world's strongest Japanese military killed civilians in Asian countries, killing 38 million people in mainland China (300,000 in Nanjing), 200,000 women and children in the Korean Peninsula (as prostitutes), and 20 million in Indonesia (romusha).

However, there are no resident registers or witnesses in the victim countries to back up the number of victims.

In the first place, did the Japanese military repeatedly invade Asian countries in order to kill their people?

There would need to be about 120 places like Nanjing in China, but I have never heard of such a thing. Incidentally, Chiang Kai-shek, who ruled Nanjing, never mentioned the Nanjing Massacre.

There were posts that mentioned Chinese treasures, but I have never heard of the Japanese military taking more than Chiang Kai-shek seized. There is no British Museum in Japan.

If there is actual evidence, I would like to see it.

It would be difficult for the Japanese military to cause damage on the scale of Mao Zedong, Stalin, or Pol Pot.

It's hard to know whether it's the will of the Pope or the Vatican to be against the death penalty.

The only relationship between countries is whether it is beneficial or not.

America may abandon South Korea, but unfortunately it cannot abandon Japan. America knows the value of Japan better than anyone else.

Damn you,Screw China, Russia, North Korea and South Korea!

What a shame. It will be a while before Lee Jae-min, who has four convictions, becomes president. I hope for the birth of a very anti-Japanese government!

TaiwanIsNotChina

Controversy over who created Article 9 of the Constitution

Regarding MacArthur's testimony, there has been a persistent suspicion that he was "forcing" the renunciation of war on Japan, but that he was trying to cover it up by saying that it was Shidehara's proposal. Based on recent research findings, the following explanation for this issue is possible.

Professor Ryuji Hattori of Chuo University has revealed that Hirota Yoji, who served as the defense lawyer for former diplomat Shiratori Toshio at the Tokyo Trials, said the following based on a statement by Kishikuramatsu, Shidehara's secretary.

"It is true that Prime Minister Shidehara first spoke about the idea or ideal of renouncing war, and that Prime Minister Shidehara and Marshal Ma completely agreed, but the issue of whether or not to stipulate it in the Japanese Constitution was not touched upon at all. Therefore, when the American draft of the Japanese Constitution was presented to the Japanese side on February 29, Prime Minister Shidehara seemed to be somewhat surprised, and the Matsumoto draft that the Japanese side had prepared did not contain any idea of ​​renouncing war. Mr. Shidehara had no intention of stipulating it in the Constitution at all." (Ryuji Hattori, "Enlarged Edition: Kijuro Shidehara," Yoshida Shoten, 2017, pp. 278-279)

Thus, even if Shidehara considered "renunciation of war" to be an ideal, he did not seem to have any intention of including it in the constitution in a binding form. If that is the case, it would be inappropriate to position Article 9 of the Constitution as Shidehara's idea.

TaiwanIsNotChina

Article 96 of the Constitution of Japan Amendments to this Constitution shall be initiated by the Diet, with a concurring vote of not less than two-thirds of all the members of each House, and shall thereupon be submitted to the people for ratification. Such ratification shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast, either at a special referendum or at such election as the Diet may specify.

The LDP has never won a two-thirds majority in the Diet.

And a majority of the people would amount to approximately 50 million votes.

Unlike the United States, where each state has a representative, the reason the Constitution has never been amended even once is because it is difficult, not easy.

You're probably the only one who thinks it's easy.

Is a country like Korea, which cannot even abide by international treaties, a country governed by laws?

Nice joke.

It is a legal system that is the exact opposite of that of a normal country, where national sentiment comes first, domestic law comes second, and international law comes third.

Only Koreans believe that even if the people do not like an international treaty, the Korean government can make it so, or that it can be made to be so if the government changes.

And the Japanese civil rights movement is simply unknown in Korea. Please look up the details in the box in front of you.

In terms of the origins of democracy, Korea was able to introduce democracy thanks to being governed by Japan and the United States. It is by no means a freedom that they won themselves. That is why Koreans have different views on democracy.

Korean people often describe the Liberal Democratic Party as a dictatorship in Japanese elections, but there have been times when the government was changed to the Social Democratic Party (a coalition government) or the Democratic Party. It is merely a reflection of the election results of the people's vote.

And they criticize second-generation politicians, but they are also elected in elections. There are no particular legal issues.

From a Japanese perspective, Korean politicians, with more than a third of them having a criminal record, seem much more abnormal.

On February 4, 1946, a working group was set up in the GHQ Government Bureau,

and they began drafting the Constitution of Japan (GHQ draft).

On February 13, the GHQ draft was presented to the Japanese government.

At a cabinet meeting on February 22, the Japanese government decided to amend the constitution in line with the GHQ draft. (There was no way they could say no.)

Can you stop lying about Shidehara proposing it?