Agent_Neo comments

The issues of forced laborers and comfort women have already been resolved.

Dealing with lawsuits by such people is the responsibility of the South Korean government, not Japan.

It has been pretty much decided that the seventh mining area will be developed by Japan alone.

There is nothing to be ceded to South Korea.

To begin with, cooperation with South Korea, which only has copied Japanese technology, is almost entirely difficult.

The Senkaku Islands are not a disputed area, but China has unilaterally claimed them as territory and is aiming to make them an additional territory. Where in China do people come from who criticize only the actions of the Self-Defense Forces without criticizing China for this?

If the Senkaku Islands are a disputed area, they should definitely appeal to international organizations as a territorial dispute. There is no evidence or proof, and claiming territory after resources are discovered is nothing more than a one-sided accusation.

China does not follow international rules, but it is nothing more than an invading nation that forces others to follow its own rules.

In other words, what China is trying to say is that it is okay for China to violate its territorial waters or airspace, but Japan should not do so.

There is no need or value in responding seriously to China's nonsense every single time.

There is no room for trust in Russia, which unilaterally abrogated the Japan-Soviet Neutrality Declaration and invaded Japan, and it was the Russian government that unilaterally seized Sakhalin II.

There is no country in the West that trusts Russia; it is simply an invader and an enemy country. It is only natural that Japan would cooperate with NATO.

China is a country that does not expand its military or engage in acts of aggression, and does not cause territorial disputes with Japan such as the Senkaku Islands.

Russia is a country that would not engage in the Cold War or invade Afghanistan, and does not cause territorial disputes with Japan such as the Northern Territories.

North Korea is a country that would not develop nuclear weapons or abduct Japanese citizens.

South Korea is a country that would not invade Takeshima.

If the countries surrounding Japan were decent countries, there would be no need for Japan to increase its defense spending, but unfortunately there are no decent countries around Japan.

Just because we still use analog technology, whether fax or floppy disks, it is hard to say that our security level is low.

However, if the people using it have low awareness, information will leak, whether it is digital or analog.

Japan should do a better job of policing how information is handled. Anti-Japanese opposition parties will try to obstruct this, but unless we do something to bring this into law, it will remain a paradise for spies.

What Chinese products have in common is that they are cheap and reasonably usable.

However, no one wants to drive something like an EV where safety measures are directly related to life. It may be that the EU didn't like it because it sold quite well in Europe.

It's clear that the Chinese Communist government doesn't care about environmental issues.

Mainland China has become a veritable exhibition center for environmental pollution, with air, ocean, and soil pollution, but the Chinese think they can do whatever they want as long as they make money, and they even go so far as to export environmental pollution.

I wonder if in the future they will start saying this?

"If you want us to stop polluting the environment, give us money!!"

Japan has the largest debt in the world, and the more people who believe the country will collapse soon, the more of an excuse Japan has to reduce unnecessary government spending around the world.

However, this excuse doesn't really fly with other foreign governments.

Due to the declining birthrate, fewer people are paying into pensions, and the best use of the money would be to directly use it to pay pensions.

Because there are still people who believe the above propaganda, the Chinese view of history is anti-Japanese, just like Korea. And incidents like this one are repeated. Both the perpetrators and the victims are just tragedies born from incorrect historical education.

If it was on the same scale as the German genocide of the Jews, it would not have been as bad as the victims of the Jews unless they had operated something like extermination camps and kept killing them.

Who on earth is it that stubbornly believes the propaganda that the Japanese army was just cruel, when there is no evidence that such things happened or that there were camps?

On the other hand, there are probably more people who do not know about incidents where Chinese people massacred Japanese people. There are many, including the "Tongzhou Incident," but I would like to know why they do not teach that the perpetrators were Chinese.

If Japanese people were sacrificed many times in China, it was natural for the Japanese army not to stay silent at that time. It is the same in the United States and the United Kingdom.

You should resent the Chinese leaders who could not even maintain proper public order at that time.

She's better than Renho, but I have no confidence that she can make Tokyo a better place. After all, it can't be said that Tokyo has improved in recent years compared to before.

It would be interesting if former Akitakata mayor Ishimaru became governor, though.

Tokyo residents are so thoughtless that they gave 1 million votes to Renho, so who knows what will happen...

Running water has started to run on the Noto Peninsula, and signs of recovery are visible.

However, the area around Wajima suffered devastating damage, so it is still a long way from being able to welcome tourists.

There would also be an economic benefit if tourists were welcomed throughout the Hokuriku region, rather than just the Noto Peninsula.

Would giving money to Africans make them all happy?

It is nothing short of shallow thinking to imagine that anyone can be made happy if you just give them money.

Self-help, mutual help, and public assistance are the principles that Japan should follow.

I'm planning a trip to Hokuriku in August, so please hurry up lol

＠Simon Foston

Those few years were enough for the Japanese people to despair of the opposition parties.

The Social Democratic Party's Murayama Tomiichi administration failed in its response to the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and the Democratic Party's Hatoyama-Kan-Noda administration is still criticized for a number of things, including its response to 3/11.

Former Prime Minister Abe looked back on the Democratic Party administration and called it a "nightmare," but to the people it was no dream at all; it was a dream that actually came true, a very real reality.

If you don't know how tragic that reality was, I recommend you look it up.

That's why the people have no expectations whatsoever of the opposition parties. After a few years of government, the Japanese people can judge whether a party is decent or not.

Russia recently made a similar criticism, but will China follow suit?

The Chinese Communist Party, Russia, and North Korea - all of them who support aggression - will likely say similar things.

If South Korea also takes over as president with a left-wing power, they may start saying the same thing. Former President Moon Jae-in just said, "We share a dream with China."

Unlike Egypt, Japan has no need to rely on tourism. Tourism still only accounts for a few percent of GDP.

A weak yen is wonderful. How much we have suffered from a strong yen.

There is no need to raise interest rates. Doing so would only make life even tougher for ordinary people, including mortgages.

Ignore the nonsense that foreigners say, and focus on domestic issues such as improving the working environment, raising wages or lowering taxes, and taking measures against the declining birthrate.

Rather than accepting foreign workers, it would be much better to put currently unemployed Japanese to work and let them collect taxes.

I have never heard the nonsense that if we fall from 3rd to 10th in GDP ranking, we will no longer be a developed country. The lives of our people are more important than rankings.

This is just one of the results of the Chinese Communist government's continued incitement of anti-Japanese sentiment.

The Chinese caused problems, the Japanese got caught up in them, and the Chinese became the victims.

They're better than South Korea, but the Chinese are no good.

That's why China, Russia, and Koreans aren't respected in the world.

＠DanteKH

Don't they know that if the LDP is incompetent, then the opposition parties are even more incompetent?

That's why the people have no expectations whatsoever from the opposition parties, and they don't care about change or anything like that.

It's completely irrelevant.

President Trump has previously said that Japan, Germany, South Korea, and Israel should fully cover the costs of their military bases, so if he becomes president again, the security treaties of each country may be reviewed.

If the US military goes to Guam, Japan should seek a way to defend itself, and in the first place, it has to defend its own country.

In economic policy, the main issues will be inflation control, elimination of the trade deficit, and increase in employment, but we will have to wait and see if Trump has a solution.

Will he cause more trade friction with China?

Will the US military intervene in the war in Ukraine?

I don't think the US has time to think about making Japan and South Korea friendly. It's a meaningless and wasteful thing.

Is there anyone who seriously believes that Japan is behind China in EV technology?

Unfortunately, those people probably don't know what a patent is.

Korean and Chinese cars are still far from surpassing Japanese cars in performance.

The same goes for safety.

If you want to get into a Chinese or Korean car and be cremated within seconds, I recommend purchasing one. You'll definitely be able to pay for the cremation.

In Japan, even elementary school students commute to school by train, but in America, they cannot walk to school by themselves. Every time I see a milk carton with a portrait of a child with the word "Missing" written on it, I get depressed thinking about how many children are being kidnapped in America.

Before criticizing other countries, why doesn't America try to make its own country better? Can't they even do that?

The answer is simple. I would ask any Chinese person, even Mao Zedong or Zhou Enlai never said that this island is Chinese territory, so why did they suddenly start saying that it is Chinese territory after the resources were discovered in the 1970s?

I repeat, even Mao Zedong never said anything like that.

How would you answer? lol

"Bad money drives out good money," and the same can be said about cars.

In the EU, electric cars made by Chinese manufacturers were threatening to drive out electric cars from other EU countries. Naturally, they were subject to regulation.

This is not because Chinese cars were of superior quality, but because they were cheap.

Are there any high-quality Chinese products? Doesn't everyone know that everything is just a cheap copy of other countries?

In the US, a cold wave hit and electric cars could no longer be charged, leaving many stranded cars, and electric cars themselves have not yet adapted to the environment.

In Korea, anti-Japanese protests often occur, but Lexus continues to sell well.

Is there any reason other than the fact that it is so good that even anti-Japanese Koreans choose Lexus over Mercedes?

On the other hand, who in Japan would buy Hyundai, which is just a cheap copy of Mitsubishi, or Kia, famous for the Kia Challenge? lol

Let's send the words of Uesugi Yozan, "self-help," "mutual help," and "public help."

If you've lived in Japan for 26 years, you're probably familiar with them, right?

Does it happen so often that people who pay taxes properly until they're old suddenly can't make ends meet?

In the first place, there are many elderly people who are able to live properly, so why should we be the first to help the incompetent elderly who can't make ends meet with the taxpayers' money?

If they can't make ends meet for some reason, they can receive welfare and be able to live a minimum standard of living, so that's enough.

Helping unproductive elderly people is just a hindrance to Japan's future. Isn't it only the Chinese Communist Party that would be happy with your words?

The truly incompetent prime ministers are decided among the Japanese people as not Kishida, but Murayama, Hatoyama, and Kan.

I think Kishida is a useless guy too, but he's better than them.

I am not against using tax money to combat the declining birthrate, but national defense is a separate issue. They are not issues that should be considered together, and if we are to raise priorities, increasing defense spending is a higher priority.

If we cannot protect our country, we cannot raise our children in peace.

There are many hostile countries around Japan, including China, Russia, North Korea, and South Korea, and all of them except South Korea are armed with nuclear weapons.

Foreigners who say that defense spending is unnecessary despite these countries are probably not concerned about Japan's security either.

If the elderly are living such a miserable life that they cannot survive because of poverty, they should receive welfare. It is absolutely unacceptable to reduce defense spending for the sake of elderly people who cannot even support themselves.

Many of the members who attended the meeting were under the impression that Leahy's estimate that 35% of the troops deployed, or about 250,000 people, would be killed or wounded in Operation Olympic alone, and Truman often cited this estimate of 250,000. However, it should be noted that this is actually an estimate for Operation Downfall as a whole.

Scholars who are critical of the atomic bombings tend to underestimate the damage estimates for Operation Downfall, and Stanford University historian Burton Bernstein estimates that the number of American casualties in the operation on the Japanese mainland was between 20,000 and 46,000.

In any case, they did not expect millions of casualties in Operation Downfall, and they did not take into account the operations following Operation Olympic, which occupied Kyushu, and Operation Coronet, which occupied the Kanto Plain. They only expected that there would be 250,000 casualties up to that point.

What about after Operation Downfall? Any specific documents or meetings?

In other words, your estimate of millions is unfounded.

Operation Downfall was divided into Operation Olympic, which was planned for November 1945, and Operation Coronet, which was planned for spring 1946. On June 18, 1945, Truman convened wartime leaders such as Leahy, Marshall, King, and Secretary of War Henry Stimson at the White House for a strategy conference to discuss Operation Olympic, and at the conference, estimates of American casualties were also discussed. 

Those who supported Operation Downfall chose as optimistic indicators as possible to ease Truman's concerns. Based on the results of the Battle of Okinawa, Leahy estimated that 35% of the approximately 680,000 to 760,000 troops deployed in Operation Olympic would be killed or wounded. Some argued that this figure would be lower given MacArthur's results on Luzon, but many of the members who attended the meeting had the impression that Leahy's estimate, that 35% of the deployed troops, or more than 250,000 people, would be killed or wounded in Operation Olympic alone, and Truman often cited this estimate of 250,000.

This is a historical fact, and where is the historical evidence presented by the US Navy and the Department of the War? lol

Also, the damage from the Great Tokyo Air Raid was approximately 100,000 people, and this figure includes many deaths from fires, etc. The death toll from one atomic bomb was approximately 140,000 in Hiroshima, a regional city, and approximately 74,000 in Nagasaki.

If it had been dropped on the capitals of Tokyo or Osaka, it would have resulted in more than 1 million deaths.

In the first place, women and children had already been evacuated.

If the capital, Tokyo, were to be dropped, the war would have almost ended there.

To begin with, Japan's currency intervention was to some extent in step with the United States, so there is no reason for the United States to complain.

Before complaining about other countries, the United States should do something about its own inflation and interest rates.

Bourne is lying lol.

In order to convince Truman, who didn't want to carry out an invasion due to the damage caused by the Battle of Okinawa, MacArthur submitted documents that significantly underestimated the damage, but it was revised as it was too low.

Even so, the estimated damage was about 220,000.

Where did they get a figure of over 1 million casualties?

Moreover, this was a damage estimate by the US military, and no estimate was made of how many Japanese civilians would be killed or injured.

In other words, it's quite possible that the damage suffered by Japanese civilians was less than the people who died in the atomic bombing.

If America really wants to contain China in semiconductors, the loopholes are still too big.

The US, Japan, the Netherlands, and Taiwan are the Western semiconductor leaders, but even the US has not been able to restrict Nvidia's semiconductor exports.

The situation is probably similar in the Netherlands and Taiwan.

Biden's policies won't have much effect. If they could, Trump might be the only one.

Japan doesn't have Harper inflation or an extremely weak currency. If Japan does, then what is it about Zimbabwe's economy that exceeds hyper?

There is nothing more foolish than thinking you can negotiate with China.

It might be possible if you had overwhelming military and economic power against China, but in America today, both are half-hearted. They only follow the strong. Just like Koreans, it's all about the strong, the weak, the weak, the strong lol

＠TaiwanIsNotChina

The Soviet army raped German women in Berlin.

The Soviet and Chinese army and Koreans raped Japanese civilians all over China.

You believe that the Japanese army committed even more horrific acts in Asia, don't you? If that's true, how relieved you would be.

In reality, rapes of women occur in every army, but the Japanese army was merely a customer who bought prostitutes recruited all over the country, but do you believe the nonsense of Chinese and Koreans?

Apparently 200,000 people, including young girls, were taken away by the Japanese army without witnesses and disposed of in secret. And the victims must have had families, but no one complained after the war. It's scary.

China, which wishes to invade Okinawa, will not be pleased with this result.

As China's economy worsens, has it become less active in political maneuvering in Okinawa?

An election has already been held in Okinawa on whether it should belong to Japan.

The result should be respected, and if they want to overturn it, they can hold another election.

It is likely that politicians like Denny are the reason why Okinawa remains poor despite receiving over 3 billion dollars of Japanese tax money every year.

Also, if we expel the US military like in the Philippines, we will be able to closely observe what China does.

If the people of Okinawa do not want to follow in the footsteps of the Philippines, they should stop voting for someone like Denny.