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China can dish it out, but can't take it.

Japan being involved with Europe is nothing new. The Anglo Japanese Alliance of 1902. WWI when Japan fought on the side of the allies and even sent their navy to the mediterranean.

Today we are in a global crisis as a result of the behavior and actions of the autocratic nations that have a direct impact on both Europe and the Far East.

Tell me the guy actually thought he could get this past TSA screening. He could have put them in his check in luggage and unless J customs looked through his bags (which I have never seen with a J passport holder) he would have his souvenirs at home.

NATO is not obsolete. In fact it is more significant and relevant than ever.

Putin most certainly doesn't consider NATO to be obsolete.

Trump has displayed a tendency to worship our enemies and hurt our allies during his 2016-2020 term throwing our alliances formed and in place for 80 years into turmoil. There is nothing to indicate that his policies would be any different if he becomes potus again. The world today in 2024 is in a global crisis that requires a US leader with a sound mind, not convicted felon with chronic lying disorder.

The UN does not recognize the four Southern Kuriles as being Russian. That is total hogwash.

The US, UK and EU consider them to be Japanese territory under Russian administration(occupation).

Kim Jong Un's BMI and haircut are provocations.

Absolutely. Kids and many young adults today can not spell. This abbreviation of words goes back to the first Telegrams and later Telex and Twix systems where every second of transmission time needed to be shortened to reduce communications costs. When cellular phones with SMS arrived the convenience of using abbreviations became a habit for many. By the early 90s when PCs became prevalent many people were still abbreviations when there was more no longer any benefit in doing so.

I would vote for Biden's dog before the other candidate who poses an existential threat to our country. Check out Project 2025 for a glimpse....

The PI are responding to China aggresive behavior with reservation and coordination with the US and its allies.

correction WAS created.

NATO wasn't the created to defend western Europe from Soviet invasion. Today Russia has turned a cold war into a hot war. NATO members are genuinely wary of Russia starting a war with them.

This is a clear cut law enforcement issue common in the fisheries industries. Completely different from the Chinese fishing fleets that are,Maritime Militia and take orders from the PLA navy to assist in Chinas territorial claims.

Japan's shortage of transplant organ donors is appal!ing. Furthering the problem are the laws that restrict donors to family and relatives for some organs.

I would vote for a comatose Biden before that perpetually lying convicted felon he'll bent on destroyIng the country to preserve his power and own rear end.

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Japan's connection with NATO goes back to PM Abe. Because both NATO and Pacific nations share agreements with the US it makes perfect sense.

Not a single F-15 on the deck. Those are FA-18s. And all planes are not on deck at once during operations

deanzaZZRToday  03:06 pm JST

@OA To summarize your way of thinking invite a country to drop 2 nuclear bombs on 2 of your cities. Be occupied and lose sovereignty for 7 years (25 years for Okinawans). Add military bases for 70+ years and count yourself a big winner.

That mostly certainly is an interesting take on history, a take that pretty much only an USA citizen (military bonus points) could take.

Ask any Japanese person young or old whether Japan has been better, more prosperous, peaceful that pre-1945. You display your lack of knowledge of what the Japanese civilians went through during WWII, being lied to by their military controlled goverment, daily bombings of the cities, shortage of everything starting with food as well as what they went through to rebuild afterwards.

Yes, Japan is a big winner. It is respected by all free nations in the world. In contrast to your China dictatorship which is despised by most of planet. China is not invited to Rimpac or Pitch Black.

BackpackingNepalToday  02:55 pm JST

Indeed a very brave woman. We should honor and respect a person like her.

But is raising the flag lower enough that what will it even do? What about reasonable value of compensation to her family for life?

Who exactly should be paying this compensation and to whom? The school? The school bus operator? The Chinese government? The Japanese government? We don't even know if she left any family behind.

JapantimeToday  05:09 pm JST

I thought every American said that Trump would never become President again. It is quite comical that every American now supports him.

What planet do you live on? Every American does not support Trump. Try not to confuse "disappointed in Biden" with "supporting Trump".

"I reassured them that the alliance will be strong, that Trump recognizes we have to work closely with our allies to defend their interests," said Fred Fleitz,

Well, Fred recognizes this but does Trump? Last time all he wanted was for both Japan and South Korea to pay more and go kissy kissy with Kim Jong Un. Even if Trump himself said it, who can trust the words of a Convicted Felon who can't say three things without three lies?

deanzaZZRToday  12:36 pm JST

@OA Here's some advice, don't start imperialist global wars and you won't lose any territory.

Japan doesn't need any advice, it has given up aggression and imperialism 80 years ago, It's your country China that needs to learn from history and cease it's aggressive territorial expansion and threatening Taiwan with military force.

Japan is lucky to retain all the Ryukyu Islands, Senakaku/Diaoyu and even some island nobody has heard of half the way to Hawaii (Minami Tori) ONLY because the US military occupied all these areas for its own Cold War purposes.

Finally you state something correct. The Japanese say that even a monkey will fall out of a tree sometimes. Japan has retained what it has because of the U.S. If the USSR/Russia had invaded and occupied Japan, it would look like North Korea. Japan understands this and having evolved into a democracy it finds being allied with the U.S. to be in it's best interests.

The Southern Kuriles is most certainly disputed. The Western nations all consider the four islands to be Japanese territory under Russian Administration (ie; Occupation). Domestic legalization of stolen territory is not recognized by the international community as confirming ownership.

Russia continues to cite WWII, but the invasion and occupation of these islands, effected after Japan declared surrender, is in violation of both the Cairo and Potsdam declarations, and the USSR/Russia not having attended or signed the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty has no authority to occupy these islands.

Stealing territory is in Russia's character, they did it in Eastern Europe under Stalin and they are doing it now under Putin.

Samit BasuToday  03:18 am JST

@TokyoLiving

Why Japan doesn't has some dignity and close that invasive and inefficient US military base??..

Japan surrendered unconditionally in 1945, that's why. Note keyword "unconditionally".

Irrelevant as usual. South Korea didn't surrender to anybody but hosts 73 US military bases, the third highest number.

So why is South Korea a vassal state?

RIP, a brave act and rightfully honored.

The nation that unilaterally invaded a neighbor and is still fighting a war after 2 years should shut it's autocratic pie hole. And stealing Japan's territory after they surrendered in WWII is what's "categorically unacceptable".

KabukiloverToday  03:22 pm JST

This is worth remembering. "Navajo Nation, the Native American reservation of the Navajo people, spans three states, including parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. A sovereign nation with its own government, its capital is based in Window Rock, Arizona."

The Navajo Nation is a federally recognized Native American territory in the United States. It operates as a semi-autonomous entity with its own government, but it is still subject to U.S. federal law and is not recognized by the United Nations as a sovereign nation.

MoonrakerToday  02:35 pm JST

The important thing is not international cooperation to solve the issue, it is to keep Japan in the spotlight as a blameless victim.

The abductees, civilians, schoolgirls in Japan and South Korea ARE blameless victims.