[A-List] Japan's Role In Achieving Global Military Supremacy Worries Neighbors

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From: Rick Rozoff
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Subject: [stopnato] Japan's Role In Achieving Global Military Supremacy 
Worries Neighbors


http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=11240&cid=56&p=16.05.2007

Voice of Russia
May 17, 2007

JAPAN'S NEIGHBOURS WORRIED
Alexander Vatutrin

-60 years on and when Japan has become America’s main
ally in the Far East Washington wants article 9 to be
expunged from the Constitution to enable Japan to join
the US in its worldwide drive for military supremacy.
-Japan can now take part not only in international
peacekeeping but also in full combat missions.
-[A] re-examination of article 9 of its Basic Law will
amount to a review of the history of World War 2.

The Parliament in Japan has recently adopted a bill on
the holding of a referendum over article 9 of the
country’s Constitution prohibiting the use of war as a
means of settling international disputes.

China and the 2 Koreas which bore the brunt of Japan’s
aggression during World War 2 are deeply concerned
over the passing of the bill.

Japan’s current Basic Law was written in May 1947
under US instruction which wanted to curtail the
ambitions of Japan’s military top brass.

Now, 60 years on and when Japan has become America’s
main ally in the Far East Washington wants article 9
to be expunged from the Constitution to enable Japan
to join the US in its worldwide drive for military
supremacy.

Under the present law Japan cannot take part in
military mission abroad and hence the need to remove
article 9 from the Constitution and when America
started its military adventures into Afghanistan and
Iraq Japan enacted emergency law to allow it to rush
to the aid of its ally under the guise of providing
auxiliary help.

Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe has declared that Japan’s
present secondary role internationally is unacceptable
and the country’s so-called self-defense force has
been reconstituted into a full fledged armed force,
equipped with some of the best advanced weapons and
weaponry.

Japan can now take part not only in international
peacekeeping but also in full combat missions.

The concerns of China and both Koreas are
understandable against the backdrop of Prime Minister
Abe’s pilgrimage to Yasukuni shrine where the remains
of hanged Japanese World War 2 military leaders are
buried.

Japan’s ambition to transform itself has long been in
the offing. This is what the Russian expert on Japan,
Victor Pavlyatenko had to say on Japan’s ambitions.

Japan desires to be a normal state not only in terms
of economic prosperity but also in terms of a big
political player internationally.

This argument may hold for a relatively young and
unknown state.

However, Japan has left too much of a bloody trail in
Asia in the middle of the last century and a
re-examination of article 9 of its Basic Law will
amount to a review of the history of World War 2.

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