After the assassination and upper house election, parties hoping to amend Article 9 of the Japanese constitution are now taking up over 2/3 of the upper house of the Japanese parliament. Japan is inching closer to re-establishing a true military. Over the past few days, PM Kishida has also announced that Japan is putting more nuclear reactors back online, raising defense spending to 2% of GDP and reaffirmed commitment to revise article 9 to explicitly state Japan's rights to military capabilities
Japan is clearly moving towards reasserting itself as a global military power. What does that mean for weapons technology? What does that mean for the US-Japan alliance, and indeed, Japan as an MNNA?
Of course they are.
Nippon Kaigi still exists and is more or less in power even without him, he was just a very important member.
>muh nippon kaigi
Nippon kaigi as major force is a midwit take. It's a club for conservative politicians. Nobody in Japan really knows or cares about nippon kaigi, but for some reason all these people in America and Europe think they know more than Japs do about their own political system.
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>What does that mean for the US-Japan alliance
The US will fully support any Japanese endeavour to increase the strength of the JSDF. It relieves the US of their military obligations to Japan and bolsters the overall power of western aligned forces in the region.
>be China
>celebrate Abe’s death
>his party ends up getting a supermajority and now moves to increase defense spending
I think that is why Xi and other party officials were quick to give condolences despite the citizens largely not liking it.
Well, that and them all belonging to the Patrician class, and a very publicly visible wing of it too.
Imagine being neighbour state to fricking China and not having a proper military lmao
couldn't be me tbqh
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>lmao
>black twitter acronym
have a nice day you fricking zoomer
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> Lmao
> Black twitter acronyms
You're obsessions with black folks has you attributing 90s internet slang 30 years after the fact. Might want to keep an eye on that.
>black folx
ftfy
LMAO is a staple of black twitter language. Not sure what you mean. It's the number one way to tell if someone on PrepHole is black.
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Hello, my black friend.
>uses twitter
>calling anyone a Black person
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black people use emojis because they hate reading, you are moronic
You're moronic anon.
What in the actual frick is wrong with you kids these days
You have to be 18 to post here
Excellent bait of very young anon
have a nice day moron
Last I checked the Japs still have one of the largest navies in the world. They've got a military, they're just not supposed to be using it for anything other than self defense. So China keeps pushing their luck knowing that so long as they don't directly trespass on Japanese territory they won't get any retaliation.
They have an awful neighborhood. China, Russia and North Korea are all right there.
>celebrate Abe’s death
More like orchestrate it.
Well, if true it's a massive own goal. It has been a shot in the arm for the liberal nationalist wing of Japanese politics
>own goal
Frick off yuropoor
Abe gave his life so that the military reforms could get more popular support, why do you think the security was so lax?
He was a true hero and patriot.
All according to keikaku
>WW3 will be Allies(minus Russia) + Axis vs Russia, China and some random mudslime shitholes
pic reminded me how fricking great Powerslave is
>What does that mean for the US-Japan alliance, and indeed, Japan as an MNNA?
It greatly strengthens it. The US wasn't entirely keen on Japanese disarmament even during the postwar occupation.
Wait - what
Yeah the US wants Japan to remilitarize
Yes I understand that, now
but the USA was not keen on Japan demilitarization after WW2?
That guy is crazy wrong. The US wrote the post war Japanese constitution. Of course they wanted demilitarisation back then.
Notice I specified postwar occupation period, which extended a little further than 45/46.
In the immediate aftermath it was. During the postwar occupation when it was clear Mao was going to whoop Chang, decidedly less so. Toward the end of the occupation period when Korea was sparking up, even less. Now we're very happy to see a strong Japan. Never underestimate the United States' commie allergy.
We rebuilt them and then we've been begging them to rearm ever since because of the threat of communism. Japan avoided Vietnam for example, unlike Australia, NZ, and South Korea.
Personally I think it's incredibly shortsighted and it just gives Japan more leeway to pursue an independent foreign policy that will not always be aligned with our interests.
While Japan becoming stronger militarily helps shore up the US coalition to contain China in the short term, in the long term it will weaken US influence over Japan, who is ultimately a competitor to the US in advanced manufacturing and services.
>who is ultimately a competitor to the US in advanced manufacturing and services.
There was a time where Japan actually did make all of the world's electronics. That time passed as Japan's economy developed to the stage where its exports became too expensive. That's when China took over most of the things Japan did and Taiwan became the world's chip manufacturer.
>it will weaken U.S. influence in japan
No, it will increase it since the U.S. and Japan will have a more efficient/mutual cooperation with each other. The U.S. wanted japan to be rearmed because it will take a load off of their back and also encourage mutual defense cooperation rather than a one sided one. The defense treaty that japan has with the U.S. encourages mutual defenses.
Meant
A Japan that relies on the US for defence needs has less bargaining power with the US than one that does not, the same is also true of Europe.
The fact that the US now wants them to go back to having independent military power betrays their own decline in relative military dominance.
The US can no longer defend Japan against China, so this means that the US loses a lot of influence over Japan.
Remember back in the day when the elite would do a human sacrifice whenever they kicked off a big plan? Weird, huh?
based Nippon+USA
greatest tsundere of all time
BUT
UK is unironically getting jealous and worried behind the scenes b/c in a collapse of global order UK & Japan will be in competition for neo-colonial raw resource extraction
so watch that diplomatic relationship
sounds like Japan wants to be in NATO 2
OFN coming soon, boyos
That's why you don't want to make martyrs
professionals know the proper way is to disgrace a politician with manufactured scandals.
US-Japan-Australia-UK alliance in work. Possible extension to "5 eyes"?
When do they kick out the US military?
Never Chang
>Never
Japan has no foreign policy of is own. It doesn't need a expanded military then.
The US will never leave Japan, Chang. Just like china will never invade Taiwan, pussy
Japan will bomb Pearl Harbor again, just in case murricans thought that they were sorry
>we live in a timeline where the rising sun and the American flag might fight side by side with the Vietnamese to destroy China
What the frick is this timeline CERN has rail hopped us onto?
Literally everyone hates China. Their "allies" of Russia and Pakistan are just a case of "enemy of my enemy"; the USSR told China multiple times that they would nuke them.
I doubt we will actually need to fight them in the conventional sense, turn on the TV. China is beginning to have a financial crisis rn that is spreading like wildfire
Wrong. So very wrong. The Philippines and Malaysia would rather have China on their side than the US.
>The Philippines
you're moronic
Philippines hates the US, and rightfully so. China is anti-western imperialism.
is this what Xi tells you so you can sleep at night?
All as planned. It was a military assassination.
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Philippines are top 3 countries for US favorability
That's not even remotely true. The US committed genocide against the Philippine population not once but three times. The US will never find an ally there. Ever.
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The Philippines is literally one of the most pro-US countries on the entire planet lol.
Why does Indonesia/Singapore hate us?
Butthurt Chinese diaspora.
The US and Turkey needs to pressure on Indonesia to recognize Kosovo. Many of its immediate neighbors recognize it but they don't.
Indonesia is less affected by Russian and Chinese pressure then Malaysia, Bangladesh and Pakistan, yet Indonesians decided to go out of their way to cuck to their pressure.
>Abe's LDP party was still facing major resistance in their attempt to revise article 9.
>Abe has been suffering major chronic ulcerative colitis for the longest time. It was a major factor of him resigning his position as the prime minister. Apparently when it flares up, he literally can't even walk, sit or even speak. And the frequency of these flare up has steadily increased in recent years.
>The assassin is an ex-JMSDF member.
>As soon as the news of Abe's death is public, LDP scores major win in the election, and literally 90% of the roadblock for amending article 9 crumbles away.
Could this been a final ruse by Abe? Killing yourself just for achieving your political goal might seem crazy drastic. But this is Japan we're talking about, they kill themselves over tiniest things.
Big if true
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>Abe's family immediately invites vice president of Taiwan to join the funeral service without skipping a beat.
>Diplomatic visa for officials of this caliber that normally requires at least weeks, was issued literally overnight.
>China threw hissy fit as expected. While Japan and Taiwan remain mostly silent.
I'm no foil head but this is sus as frick.
>raising defense spending to 2% of GDP
They have the second most powerful navy in the world and they’re not even at 2% GSP? Mama Mia.