The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Derrick on Dec 16, 2006, 10:32:26 AM
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/1...k.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/15/japan.pacifist.rollback.ap/index.html)
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan's conservative government chipped away at two pillars of the country's postwar pacifism, requiring schools to teach patriotism and upgrading the Defense Agency to a full ministry for the first time since World War II.
The measures, enacted Friday in a vote by Parliament's upper house, form key elements of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to bolster Japan's international military role, build up national pride and distance the country from its post-1945 war guilt.
The votes were important victories for Abe's government, which has suffered sharp drops in popularity polls since taking office in September over the perception that he has not paid enough attention to domestic issues.
The education reform bill triggered controversy, both because of its sensitive content and because of disclosures this week that the government had planted officials posing as ordinary citizens at "town meetings" discussing the measure.
This will end badly.
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Yeah probably but at least they'll take us out with gundams.
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We can wish for A Japanese civil war this Christmas, and the bundles of cash we'll make on black market anime.
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Wait, we might wind up with a strong Japan to kick the communist asses of North Korea and China if/when they decide to act up?
OH NOES :P
It doesn't hurt us as long as we keep getting their best anime and baseball players.
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Yeah, with all of those psycho countries on the other half of the world, I'd think the last thing we need is a weak, neutered Japan.
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And if some of those other countires start to see Japan as a threat to them..they won't hesitate to take them out. Then no more Japan, at least not as we know it.
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Seeing as North Korea was purposing to launch their test nuclear-tipped missile at Japan, this move on Japan's part is rather commendable.
Besides, Japan is a NATO partner and may soon be a member nation. If they're attacked after that, woe betide those who dared conduct such martial dipshittery.
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America is the best country in the world at killing people. God Bless us, Every One.
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Times change. They've been in the penalty box for over 60 years. I think they've learned their lesson.
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America is the best country in the world at killing people. God Bless us, Every One.
Better them than us. The hell with the international community bullshit, it's every nation for itself.
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Especially in the climate of Globalization versus Neo-Nationalism. Japan excells at nationalism, it just sucks at picking allies... *looks at the American/Japanese alliance*
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