OKuniyoshi comments

When you start the game, all gloves are off. You have your reasons/justifications, they have theirs, equally valid/justifiable. No point in complaining, not everyone/country is as pliant as you or/America wish/hope.

They do it on Monday, your group do it on Tuesday, they do it on Wednesday, your group do it on Thursday. Pot calling kettle black. In the mean while, you waste resources, your neighbors/next door, waste resources, you cannot/don't have resources to improve your citizen's life. So, how?? Don't let groups from far away, safely guarding their homeland from hijacking your foreign policies/don't let them instigate you, Talk/negotiate/discuss/etc to/with your neighbors, after all, its just disputes/legacies. In the mean while, use your resources to improve your citizen's life.

The G7, Japan, cannot/will not make a clear stand on this issue is because, they do not believe in it/there is 0% conviction. In fact, its possible that their true belief is the opposite!! They are making these vague statements so that they will appear politically correct, avoiding judgement/criticism/laughter/shame.

All i will add is. Do not pay attention/believe/listen to every rhetoric you hear coming out from any country/government/officials. No intrinsic/altruistic/genuine beliefs/principles. Because, when its friend/allies, its ask/request, and i will add, politely. If its not friends/allies, its human right/violations/crime, war crime??. IE, 100% lacking in integrity.

Some people/countries like to paint these loans as bad for the borrowers??? When the IMF/World Bank, western institutions, failed to do their jobs, or, with so many conditions attached for/when doing its jobs, some others need/can step up, for developing countries. Or, are these western countries just like to see the developing world stay developing forever, perhaps, its easier to get the developing world to do its bidding/easier to acquire their recourses?? Before someone says that China is doing the same. At least, they do not go around heaping all sorts of slanders/accusations at other lenders. That alone earns it the benefit of the doubt.

Has no leadership/demonstrating leadership. He does not know/understand what his job is/responsibilities are, therefore, has the wrong priorities/unable to/don't know how to select the right people/how to delegate, therefore poor leader, ie, leave. Big picture, the country needs/desperately, a new political landscape. IE, new people, younger? new parties, more varied? Definitely, not family's dynasties type.

This "comments" platform, is exactly it. Its just for comments/opinions, that's all. Its hardly a platform for a debate. Why is there a need for some readers to response to comments/opinions posted?? If, you have an opinion/comment, just post it. No need to response, its impossible to debate any issue here. The administrator will take care of any undesirable comments/opinions.

Sometimes, if you take the initiative to do something, ie, do it first, before the American. Then it will come across as it was done with some integrity, otherwise, with your history/record of actions, it just come across as aping, ie, no back bone.

Come on the G7. Don't talk with your hand over one eye. IE, don't be such hypocrite. The sea food ban, any difference from all the tech ban????? They are just responding.

All i need to add is, do not believe everything you read, or see.

Sure, they are building up their nuclear capability/military capability. Blar blar blar!!! Threatening everyone. But, who knows what will happen in the future???? All i know is, the pass/historically, what who has done. And i know who is the actual/real thread, over the propaganda.

The headlines could easily be this, Russia and N Korea raise concerns over US.-Japan-S Korea military cooperation.

The American has been in Japan since WW2, and S Korea since 1950.

So, how????

Look at Kishida's itinerary/diary the last 6 months. He was more a foreign minister than a prime minister. With this reshuffle, he intents to function more as a foreign minister than a prime minister. Over to Japanese voters.

What a waste of tax payer's money. Obviously he has non thing to do in his day's job, as ambassador of USA in Japan.

He has time to talk about a 3rd country, which has its own American ambassador. All round waste of tax dollar.

The Taiwan Strait was very stable when Ma was the president. All kinds of exchanges took place. Ma even met Xi, ties was going to get even better.

He can't/will not be able to fool ASEAN, his trip/attempts is nothing more than an Anti/preamp China move, nothing more.

If the author thinks that this is about food safety, perhaps, the author should not be contributing to a national newspapers column. You banned their products, eg, Huawei, claiming National Security. They can ban yours too, claiming National Security. There are as many versions of National Security as countries, each country has their own version, not just yours. If you want to play the game, sometimes results don't go your way.

All they have to say is, National Security, like what you used. Every country has their own version of it. Not just the American's, or, yours.

You,. the supposed leader of the world, set bad examples, so what do you expect?? Countries are getting wise to you, so, just copying/follow you when they deal with others, especially your allies.

National Security means different things to different countries, its not just your version. America, being itself, can afford to play this game, Japan??? What do you have for leverage to play this game?? Not everyone is stupid, you know???

This is the problem/price you pay, when you surrender/cede control of your land/country/etc, to foreigner.

This is the problem, when you want to play politics/start playing politics, it will come a time when others will find an opportunity to do the exact same to you, when its disadvantage to you.

And its his business??? He pull this Circus stunt like this, you know its politics.

I think you can assess quiet accurately his personality/wish/desire?? From this, he sang America Pie, in congress, as a leader of S Korea, representing S Korea.

You used national security as justification, when you want to do something that is disadvantage to them/dis regard treaties, well, you decided to get involve with the game, its a game other countries can play too.

All these money, could have been saved, used for other purposes, if, you just stay out of other country's internal affairs. Once that is done, the problems with N Korea will take care of itself. The quarrel you have with your neighbor regarding disputed territory, will stay disputed, no threat, its 2023, not 1900s, or there about, no country wants conflicts/wars today. Just like so many countries in the world, just stay out of the fight between the two big powers.

In todays volatile world. Its unlikely/unrealistic to ask all nuclear countries, there are so many of them, to give up their nuclear weapon. What is doable/realistic is, if Japan, and some countries are sincere/serious about the evil of nuclear weapon, is first, to sign on to, No First Use. If every country signed on to it, then, the result is, the world will never again see its evil/destruction. So, for anyone to talk, and be taken seriously, please first, sign on, and ask yours friends to do the same, other wise, its just for public consumptions/votes.

Japan, just like any sovereign country, is free to meet/not meet any other country it wants/not want, just do not be a hypocrite, about things/justifications etc, etc.

A person would have to be living in a well, if he/she does not know/think that it will be a political/geopolitical decision when it comes to China, its not trade anymore. And, its all driven by the American and mostly Western , willing or unwilling allies.

No one in the world today want war, including the N Korean. They don't have the capability, other than nuclear. Just don't blindly/echoing/parroting the American, which they feel are threatening their survival/security/etc, that is why East Asia is dangerous today, which it should not be, the American just need to go back to their half of the ocean.