Michael Penn, president of the Shingetsu News Agency, on Japanese Prime Minister Kishida’s assertion that all Japan taxpayers have a “responsibility” to support its policy of dramatically increasing military expenditures, accepting the premise that Japan’s neighbors are likely to launch an armed attack unless deterred from doing so [and that] this marks the effective end of … [Read more...] about An Epitaph for Kishida’s New Capitalism
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The Overseas Dispatch of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces and U.S. War Preparations
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 30, No. 2, August 4, 2014.Narusawa MuneoTranslated by Richard H. MinearRegardless of Prime Minister Abe’s attempt to make the case that collective self-defense is constitutional, for some time the Self-Defense Forces have been working to achieve for Japan the status of a “state that can wage war overseas.” Behind this movement wriggles … [Read more...] about The Overseas Dispatch of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces and U.S. War Preparations