Japan is nowadays seen as the lap dog of the USA. Not a threat unless the USA commands it. But there are some similarities to the past. The US sanctioned Japan in the early 1900s, one of the reasons that pushed Japan to the war. Now the US is forcing Japan to invest more in the army, thus raising taxes and burdening the population. Recently the US demanded Japan $550 billion for nothing in return. This is raw power. The US is pushing Japan towards a path with no exit.
The nationalism and racial myth survived WW2, and the Japanese government has steadily maintained them. Up to this day, the Japanese population believe in the uniqueness and superiority of the Japanese race and culture. As such, Japan has rejected foreigners, choosing racial purity over survival.
All of this along with the severely worsening living and economic conditions is pushing Japan to choosing between obeying and dying, or disobeying and starting a war, similar to WW2. Any path they choose is basically suicidal.
To avoid a pacific war theater, the US must stop abusing Japan and offer some support. This is one of the tasks of the American left. Don’t ignore Japan!
Sorry not sorry Shinzo Abe’s ghost, but you’re on your own. America won’t help your Japanese ass in a war with China, you’ll just have to sue for peace with the CCP and United Korea.
America is too busy undergoing it’s own years of lead at the moment for this shit
>>2825723>To avoid a pacific war theaterThere is like no way japan could win a war today
>>2825738In an act of despair Japan might choose to start a war. This will inevitably affect the US
>>2825750I agree. They don’t have young people. But what to do when left with no choice?
Idk if you're aware, but people were writing entire books about the inevitability of a new war between Japan and America back in the 80s. Then the US got them to kneecap their own economy in the 90s. The US satelite network has proven to be extremely resilient and hard to escape, even for states which on paper seem like they should be able to go it alone or be powers unto themselves. This wasn't a fluke either, since the Americans effectively got Germany to do the same thing in 2022 by cutting Russian energy imports. Why this is the case remains something of a mystery to me.
>>2825761>This wasn't a fluke either, since the Americans effectively got Germany to do the same thing in 2022 by cutting Russian energy importsLol. Not diplomatically. America had to bomb the nordstream pipeline to cut off imports. What worked in the 80's against Japan certainly doesn't work now
>>2825752Literally die out
In WWII at the end their generals in the army were calling for the country to be nuked than surrender and that to die out in a massive explosion would be beautiful.
>>2825767The Germans had already cut imports before that, but the Nordstream bombing actually further proves my point. The US basically committed an act of war against Germany that further weakened their economy, and their only response was "Thank you sir, may I have another?".
China rejects immigration just as much.
>>2825830Bullshit, rural Chinese men import wives from all over BRI but especially Pakistan and Myanmar thanks to one child policy girl shortage
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People from Okinawa are not considered Japanese by mainland Japanese. It’s a sacrificial lamb
>>2825723they got buck broken by the USA, there is no coming back from the humilliation, they actually enjoy it
like 1/4th of their population is aged 65+
also this
>>2826055Japan's future is to slowly fade away while asia develops.
>>2826060The 65 year olds can do suicide charges with their dad’s old arisakas, everyone wins
>>2826055>they got buck broken by the USAWhat a strange reactionary opinion. You think the US eliminating their psychotic suicidal fascist govt and turning the country into one of the most peaceful, developed and stable countries on the planet is "buck breaking"?
>>2826064Plaza accords, not wwii
>>2826069Overrated imo. Its more like that Japan’s industries expanded so rapidly that Japan didn’t know what to do with its excess industrial wealth, so they decided to siphon it to the real estate market and that led to the series of events that would lead to the Japanese bubble bursting, which led to the lost decades. The plaza accords was just one piece of the equation for Japan’s decline.
Speaking of which, the decline is so bad that SK overtook Japan in GDP per capita, and Japan’s population has decline by more than a million people in just a year. I honestly see it as a sign that Japan’s glory days are over. It remains to be seen if the nips will keep on coping or face reality and realise that being China’s bitch carries more perks than being America’s bitch.
>>2825830Straight up wrong. China has always been a multiethnic country. Foreigners can and have integrated into the society. If a mixed race child grows up in China they will for the most part be integrated, although they may remain somewhat of a curiosity, they'll for the most part be accepted. This is patently not true in Japan where mixed race Japanese who have grown their whole life in Japan are socially shunned.
>>2826064Obviously yeah, they're currently slaves of the US, regardless of how psychotic their gov was before
>>2826083LOL mixed race Chinese people are just as shunned, all East Asian societies are obsessed with racial purity in ways only comparable to the Nazis and 1920s American eugenicists.
As for immigration, China doesn’t even allow freedom of movement inside its country (see Hukou system) so why would it have more liberal immigration laws than Japan? Granted, you can move there, but unless you become a Chinese citizen then obviously the CCP will make it harder for you to renew your visa each successive time.
It should also be noted that Japan’s immigration laws, while strict for low-skill immigration, is actually more permissive when it comes to higher-skilled workers from abroad, much moreso than even Canada.
It’s just that Japan is unliveable for anybody other than rich white expat, rich Chinese and other foreign oligarchs, and the Japanese themselves. Japan once tried to have mass immigration from Southeast Asia, but that failed since most of them didn’t want to live in Japan because Japan sucks as a place to live in for anyone other than rich people or rich-to-middle class white people.
>>2826088Not true of the Philippines, they love foreigners and race mixing (they hate themselves for being poor, it’s sad). The Hukuo system was effectively abolished as of this week, rural migrants to the cities can get all the social services and better wages now without losing the land rights.
>>2826089I think they mean Japan, South Korea and China. Rest of Asian countries are poor and more receptive to foreigners.
>>2826271Probably true, either way the Hukou system was more or less abolished this past week
>>2825797>probably thailandlol
>>2826271The pure East Asains vs the brown SEAmonkeys
>>2826028>People from Okinawa are not considered Japanese by mainland Japanese.More /leftypol/ folk wisdom. People here really think Okinawa yearns for being a Chinese protectorate or something.
>>2826351I lived in Japan 3 years uygha, I know what I am talking about. There's discrimination even among Japanese from different perspectives.
>>2826465They were an Axis country allied with Japan.
>>2826487The fact that they count and France doesn’t is bullshit tbqh
Fuck imperial japan but they had one of the coolest flags
To avoid a pacific war theater, the US must stop existing
>>2827155Then again, Vichy France is widely deemed as a French puppet government, with the legitimate French government waging resistance from its Central African colonies.
>>2827319The exact same thing happened in Thailand, Japan invaded, they folded immediately, and there were Free Thai Guerrillas fighting in Thailand for the whole duration of the war, basically the same situation as France.
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