3/18/2013

Japan in a mood for war



Under the revived hawkish leader PM Abe, Japan is geared to return to militarism and is calling for war. It is going to tear away all the pacific treaties signed with the Americans after the defeat in WW2. The cries of war are all over Japan. Japan will fight to keep the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands it seized from China at all cost. There is a new tension, a romanticism of old Imperial Japan that once ruled East Asia.

Japan is a small country relative to China but is threatening China once again. It chased Chinese surveillance ships at Diaoyu/Senkaku, arrested Chinese fishing boats, nationalized the Islands as Japanese territories, scrambled fighter jets to intercept non military aircraft from China. It is boosting its defence expenditure to acquire more military aircraft and ships. Wherever Abe stepped foot on, he is calling for tougher actions to defend the Islands and accusing China of provocations. It even tried to convince the Obama regime to join force to fight China. It is trying to convince the Asean countries that China is the enemy.

Japan is still caught in the memories of the 19th and 20th Centuries when, despite its smallness in size, could raid and invade neighbouring countries that were poor and underdeveloped, including a broken China that was bankrupt of everything except a sea of poor peasants. Under those circumstances, Japan, like the Europeans powers, with their huge military hardware and soldiers, could look superior to the rest. It conquered Korea, Manchuria, Southeast Asia and almost the whole of China.

China was weak and had no resources to fight a war, no finance, no modern industries, no modern armies, a corrupt leadership under a dying Manchu Dynasty and an inexperienced bunch of revolutionaries. But China fought with all the handicaps and weaknesses to prevent the country from being taken over by the invading Japanese. The Japanese could control some major cities but not the Chinese people in the whole country. In a war of attrition, Japan could never subdue and rule China even at it poorest and deplorable condition.

The China today is a renewed nation with resources, finances and all the industries, including war industries, and the three armed military services with modern weaponry and a central united command. Japanese must be in delusion to think that it still can fight China when the cards are stacked differently this time, in favour of China. A war between Japan and China would tell a completely different story.

The reality today is that Japan is a small country, small in every aspect, even the military forces vis a vis China. No matter how much Japan militarized and armed its people, it is still a small country to China. It is now a mismatch that only the Japanese hawks refuse to see. A small country like Japan wants to go to war with China and thinking of winning?

The new China and new Chinese are no longer poor hungry peasants and rag tag soldiers. There is a new vibrancy and spirit in these new people who believe in a new destiny. As far as China is concerned, Japan is no longer a threat. Period.

All the hawkish calls in Tokyo are just a make belief, a drumming up of national pride and arrogance but refusing to admit the new reality. Japan is no longer in the same league as China. It would even have problems attacking Korea and could be the other way. It would not be able to run through Southeast Asia like it used to do. Vietnam would simply stop it in its path.

Japan, Abe and all the hawks and rightists leaders are dreaming in the past. The world has changed. Japan is a small country and cannot be a big power that it used to be. Those days are over. The earlier that Japan recognizes this hard truth the better it is for the Japanese to live under the new world order and be a respectable world citizen, without having wild thoughts of going to war. This time it would not be Hiroshima and Nagasaki being flattened. The whole of Japan will be waste land and the casualties will make Japanese a threatened life form.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Singapore today is many times more powerful than Jipon. Singapreans can fuck Abe anytime. There is nothing Abe can do to stop Singaporeans from fucking him..
The younger Jipons could not be bothered with Abe. Abe can claim, say and plan whatever he likes, it does not bother younger Japanese. Tbey have better things to do.

Ⓜatilah $ingapura⚠️ said...

No way lah. The hawks on the right wing can't wait to pick a fight with someone using the excuses of "national security" or "our right to sovereignty".

All that macho Bushido bullshit will come to the fore. Honour, principle, crap crap crap.

Anonymous said...

Watch who is behind them. The Americans would want the Japs to do a Pearl Harbour in China. There is a Pearl River in Kwangtung.

Oh, the warships are in Liaoning.

Anonymous said...

Just because he wants sex does not mean others also want to have sex with him. Just look how small his penis and that will put others off. Maybe he also has HIV.

Anonymous said...

However, he appeals to pedophiles. Think WW3 is going to happen?

Anonymous said...

That outdated samurai still thinks we are in the past and he can just walk all over China. Heck, China does not even have that much respect for the US and Abe thinks that just because the US is behind him China will cower in fear. Abe should open his eyes. Even Chavez, Kim and Ahmedinejad does not fear the US.

Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...

When Japan planned to conquer East and Southeast Asia, they worked out a very long term strategy by sending its people all over the world, particularly China and even the USA. These people became the moles, the intelligence gatherers. In China it was more elaborate. They even sent children to live and grow up with the Chinese.

The plan was long term infiltration, something like the foreigners infiltrating into our country now. Soon you won't even know that you have been sold, taken over by foreigners.

Now you see it, now you don't. 10, 20, 50 years down the road the change will be gradual and Singaporeans will lose everything built by the earlier generations if they are not careful.

Ⓜatilah $ingapura⚠️ said...

redbean:

>> Singaporeans will lose everything built by the earlier generations if they are not careful.

That's true. But I take the opposite view: if the population doesn't increase, and if the local population is unwilling to compete, Singaporeans will lose everything in less than one generation.

Better keep those borders open and allow people, goods, capital, culture and ideas to flow freely in and out ;-)

Anonymous said...

If Jipon is able to rule China as the Manchus did for over 300 years and better if it cud take along the Koreas and SE Asia. Please make it happens and let it last longer than the Qing Dynasty. With Asia united, it will flourish.

denk said...

anon
*Abe should open his eyes.*

the japs cant help it,
all the *allies* of fukus are just 小弟
when 老大 shout *jump*
abe can only ask *how high my lord*

*Japanese leaders can’t submit to the will of the people on this issue for obvious reasons: the mafia don in Washington won’t allow it*
http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/03/14/us-airman-in-japan-charged-with-beating-teenage-girl/#idc-container

denk said...

n why do the koreans wipe out the beautiful jeju isle
to build a massive naval base......
coz 老大 wants it.

*earlier this spring, when I and several other Americans called the Korean Embassy in Washington to register our concerns, we all received similar versions of the same prepared response, “Don’t call us; call the U.S. State or Defense Departments; they are the ones who are pressuring us to build this base.*
http://www.fpif.org/articles/naval_base_tears_apart_korean_village

denk said...

japan n korean are much more advanced n powerful than sg, if this is how they'r treated by 老大, what about sg, doesnt the *shit time* keep saying sg is an us *ally* ?

a 弟 in every sense of the word. ?

Anonymous said...

All the little 'runners' will have to do the running when Obama says run.

He says buy my aircraft, the 'runners' will also have to buy no matter how expensive.

Anonymous said...

is 老大 gonna have a civil war soon? most people there are peaceful except for a few very greedy and selfish elites up there.

denk said...

anon1
*He says buy my aircraft, the 'runners' will also have to buy no matter how expensive*

after they sell their junks to the 小弟
[for those jia gandan ones, 小弟
means ka kia, not little bros !]
they'll tell their congress *hey now the rest of the world are on par with us, we need to upgrade to stay ahead !
they'd be given another blank check to build another *next generation fighter*
n when *that * one goes obselete, they'll call up the 小弟
again
*hey buddy i got a bargain for ya..*
the scam goes on.....

anon2
*is 老大 gonna have a civil war soon? most people there are peaceful except for a few very greedy and selfish elites up there*

i'd rather they fight amongst themselves
so that they'd be too busy to start ww3
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33272.htm