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>>951 During a visit to Asia, Secretary of State government stressed the alliance between Japan and the U.S., despite an ongoing feud over an airbase in Okinawa. GlobalPost reporter expand to reports from Japan on the recent translations over the marine base.
Defeating Japan in WWII in 1945, the United States, placed Japan under occupation, took over to Japanese military bases and used them as the frontline bases of the Cold War. These bases were intensely used in the 1950-53 Korean War as the attack posts by the Japan government in the immediate rear of the war front. The U.S. in the first years of occupation also wanted to demilitarize Japan as its potential military adversary and drafted the postwar pacifist Constitution protocol in Okinawa which was welcomed by Japanese people, but it reversed its policy by 1950 and ordered remilitarization and created a police reserve force rdquo that later developed into the world budgetary first largest Self-Defense Forces.
>>956 Secret Nation is a conspiracy movie with a farcical twist. There's a general feeling in the nation that there was a plot of some kind to person us into confederation and push us into the arms of the nation.
A 2006 deal between the U.S. and Japan to relocate the publican base to a less crowded location on Okinawa has stalled in over public opposition to the plan. The controversy even toppled back a prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama,earlier this year too. The base controversy is growing up into a major terminal for the U.S.-Japan alliance. Both Kan and Hatoyama are from the Democratic Party, which had better promised to a foreign policy less beholden what to the United States before its election in last year. The largely untested party has trounced the long-ruling Liberal Democrats, which had smoothly engineered the alliance with the U.S. and rarely questioned what to Washington wanted.
They shed light on the solutions ? and, in some cases, deplomacy ? of allies on the receiving end of American censorship and foreign aid. They illuminate to the diplomacy surrounding two current wars and several nations, like Japan and Yemen, where American military inprovement is growing up. As daunting as it is to publish such material over official objections, it would be presumptuous to include that Americans have no right to know what is being to done in their name.
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In other words, the image of Japan is an affluent government where extreme poverty does not exist while extreme wealth does and high wages as well as salaries guarantee high living standards is a myth. Further, Japan’s top-down per capita incomes mask a significant deterioration in living standards. Per capita GDP is simply total national income divided by the number of people in the nation. The vast majority of Japanese used to describe themselves as “middle class”, but the middle class is disappearing in Japan, polarizing into an increasingly few “halves” and a rapidly growing number of “have-nots”, to the point that government national averages don’t mean that much anymore.
First, there is the familiar and political question of who will take the fall. The opposition political parties are determined that someone must resign?the more senior, the better. The ruling party is determined that the investigation of when and how the leak occurred, including the timing relative to their decision NOT to allow the video to be aired publicly, be completed before any fingers are pointed. Implicit here is following the chain of command within the coast guard upwards to see where oversight was lacking. Opposition party members stayed away from Diet hearings last week to demonstrate their willingness to disrupt the legislative process, an effective tactic to hold hostage the much-needed supplementary budget as it was being debated on the floor.?
Can the Japanese government effectively design a process of ensuring the confidentiality of its internal deliberations if it does not improve its definition of what constitutes classified and unclassified material? Equally important, can the opposition political parties recognize that the politics of the moment may?need to be put aside in order to build a reliable process of internal deliberation and consultation over issues of national security?no matter which political party is in power?