Ishiba hopes to work closely with Trump for robust Japan-U.S. ties

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gosh, what an original idea.

It saddens me to see Japanese independence and self-confidence decline to an all time low since the end of WW2.

it starts with fair trade. the US need to tariff Japanese goods the same amount American goods are charged in Japan. That is the starting point.

She's not a US citizen so that's not his problem.

Also, her problem, as sad as it is, does not have a solution except acceptance.

Hopefully the tangerine scream will give Ishiba enough time for a smoke. Working so closely with a thin skinned narcissist will be stressful.

In other word gvt to keep going a bootlickers....

Ishiba should cut off all diplomatic relations and trade with the US for 4 years to protest Trump saying there’s only two genders.

Japan needs stronger and smarter PMs...

Not surprised. Japan as a vassal state that they were always spinless. Japan of today is like China in 1930s in a panic mode !

Naive Ishiba..

LOL

The big US industrial military complex is trying to destabilize another continent and is courting Japan to achieve his scope.  As if the disasters in Eastern Europe and Middle East haven't killed enough innocent people, and to what result?  

The history of U.S. foreign policy shows that the United States will strongly confront superpowers antagonistic to it — the United Kingdom during the American Revolution, Germany during the two world wars and the Soviet Union after World War II. If Washington sees China as a threat to its hegemony, it will confront the Chinese. Just as the United Kingdom was a vital ally for the United States when it was at odds first with Germany and later with the Soviet Union across the Atlantic, so now is the United States’ alliance with Japan crucial for the country.

Just as the United Kingdom was a vital ally for the United States when it was at odds first with Germany

They must not teach history in China because it was actually the opposite

"Japan's top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said the Japan-U.S. alliance will remain the "linchpin" of his country's defense and security policy as Tokyo aims to lift it to "new heights."

Translation: Wow! This self-defense stuff we tried is really expensive! Maybe Trump's not such a bad guy after all. So,...

"Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani told a separate press conference that he will "closely communicate with the new administration to further beef up the Japan-U.S. alliance's deterrence and response capabilities" amid the increasingly severe security environment."

 it was actually the opposite

Oh really? I must have missed something. Let me double check...

Actually there is nothing wrong apart from the fact that I do not read legacy media.

Maybe we should enroll to a history class online in the US, or current geopolitics, where they teach which countries are actually part of BRICS (see the Spain slip up:))

"Ishiba hopes to work closely with Trump for robust Japan-U.S. ties."

Peace to all men of good will.

deanzaZZRToday  07:26 am JST

It saddens me to see Japanese independence and self-confidence decline to an all time low since the end of WW2.

You would prefer it was still the Great Japanese Empire stomping all over China? Weird.

You missed the "end of WW2" part. Your comment seems off topic but that's for the Mods to decide. Perhaps they enjoy memories of "Great Japanese Empire stomping all over China" too. Weird.

It seems Ishiba wants to be on the right side of history.

The big US industrial military complex is trying to destabilize another continent and is courting Japan to achieve his scope. 

Absolute and utter nonsense.

As if the disasters in Eastern Europe and Middle East haven't killed enough innocent people, and to what result? 

Not sure how that relates to Japan.

The history of U.S. foreign policy shows that the United States will strongly confront superpowers antagonistic to it —

Exactly, ANTAGONISTIC. If they (any nation) are not, there is no reason for the US to take a hostile position

the United Kingdom during the American Revolution, Germany during the two world wars and the Soviet Union after World War II. If Washington sees China as a threat to its hegemony, it will confront the Chinese.

We are doing that right now.

Just as the United Kingdom was a vital ally for the United States when it was at odds first with Germany and later with the Soviet Union across the Atlantic, so now is the United States’ alliance with Japan crucial for the country.

Not just our nation, but the entire Pacific.

Not just our nation, but the entire Pacific.

Perhaps not everyone on this side of the world (Pacific) shares the same warmongering attitude of the United States of America. The above points are not directly related to Japan, but they will be if Washington keep inciting tensions with China to please the interests of the big industrial military complex, like it had done in Ukraine and Middle East. That was my point.

Fos ,

Every four years the people of America choose to judge presidents, leaders that govern. To appraise performance, to assess there fit to remain in office. Democracy is seen up close.

The people of Japan likewise.

The Government of China has threatened Japan airspace, its sea, its trade, its fishing industry.

Made claims to isles, seas the government of China knows full well is not theirs to claim.

If the government of China continues with this policy, the results will be determined by the government of China actions.

It will be very ugly, however you reap what you sow.

Perhaps not everyone on this side of the world (Pacific) shares the same warmongering attitude of the United States of America.

Trump is back, no warmongering, relax.

The above points are not directly related to Japan, but they will be if Washington keep inciting tensions with China to please the interests of the big industrial military complex, like it had done in Ukraine and Middle East. That was my point.

It depends on what China will do, the ball is in their court.

If the government of China continues with this policy, the results will be determined by the government of China actions.

I am sorry but I don't consider accurate certain stories of Filipinos fishermen skirmishes with China vessels, spread by the legacy media.

We have seen it in the past. I hate to repeat myself but one example in the area is certainly The Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, a complete lie fabricated by the US administration which produced over 15 years of deaths and devastation in a neighboring country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

As we all know the US State department disinformation has a track record of promoting manipulative narratives

Ishiba promises to become an even more subservient vassal.

No one is more nervous in the Asia Pacific region than President Bong Bong who put in all his chip (few though they may be) into SCS confrontations and the belief that Biden/Blinken reign would continue under a Harris administration.

I am sorry but I don't consider accurate certain stories of Filipinos fishermen skirmishes with China vessels, spread by the legacy media.

Ishiba is a former Minister of Defense as are several others in his cabinet. Subservience to Uncle Sam is part of the position.

Ishiba promises to become an even more subservient vassal.

Ishiba is a former Minister of Defense as are several others in his cabinet. Subservience to Uncle Sam is part of the position.

Funny (and predictable) how the political apparatus in Tokyo run by Washington told him to tone down his aspirations of the Asian Nato, and forget any inquiry about the presence of US military in Okinawa. He suddenly lost any memory of what he said soon after the elections. 

We have seen what happened to the Yukio Hatoyama administration in 2010 and how long it lasted

Fos,

The government of China has at every available opportunity undermines Japan economy, humiliate its people, attempts to destroy Japan's fishing industries with a blanket ban on the import of Japanese seafood products.

The government of China after a devastating 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, hounded Japan desperate efforts to rebuild by politically weaponizing the disaster to create uncertainty to drive discontent between he people and government.

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On Aug. 26, a PLA Y-9DZ electronic intelligence collection aircraft came within 12 nautical miles of Japan’s Danjo Islands, 80 miles west of Kyushu, Japan’s southernmost main island. It was the first time a PLA aircraft had violated sovereign Japanese airspace since the Japanese Self Defense Force started keeping records of such events in 1967.  

This illegal action is the most blatant in a long line of bully and harassment, constantly poking and prodding at Japan's borders.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba must pursue a more robust bilateral US relationship.

Democracy in motion, in full view, is when at this US president inauguration, a pompous politically motivated pulpit priest, can harangue, can lecture, can scold berate a US president to his face.

Attempt that in Hong Kong/China/Taiwan.

Despot tyrant dictator Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China will make sure you disappear.

The government of China never fails to remind Japan its people of his imperialist past, yet commits acts of cruelty genocide to its own people.

Keeping this in mind, I will question the government of China motive and intent at every level, every statement of cooperation, offers of false friendship

itsonlyrockandroll

I think we have spoken about this topic before. You seem to be very critical about China activities and politics, well informed about Beijing “alleged” internal crimes, but very accommodating and lax about the US administration policies. I remind you that 90% of the accusation and chronicles you read about China comes from the legacy media, whose main aim is to alter the reports and paint Beijing as the main responsible of everything that is wrong in the Asia Pacific.

One example is the unproven skirmishes between Filipinos fishermen and Chinese ships in South China Sea. Simply not credible. As we all know the US State department disinformation has a track record of promoting manipulative narratives, and that is why I mentioned the fabricated lies about the The Gulf of Tonkin incident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident). 

Those decisions have consequences! The Vietnam War death toll is estimated to be around 3.8 million casualties in total and nearly half of the deaths were civilians caught in the fighting. 

You mentioned the priest in Washington who is allowed to criticize Trump during the mass service, as opposed to the lack of transparency in China. And what was the response of Trump? He belittled the lady when he was asked by the media, and nothing will change: he will go on with the mass deportation of immigrants from the country, not to mention the rest of illiberal violations of human rights. 

And honestly, how can you still defend this America after all you have heard in the last two days?

Personally I did not think anything could have been worse after the Biden administration, with the support of the mass killings in the Middle East, through the supply of almost $30 billions and counting of lethal weapons to Israel. And we could go on with many examples, with the continuous campaign of destabilization in many continents, with the only scope of enriching the warlords in Wall Street. 

As long as you believe what other people write, and keep despising China for your own legit reasons, we will never convinced that this or the previous America is a better choice. Pretty much the opposite.

Fos,

In the free world we can demand from our governments full accountability for past historic horrors.

March up and down outside our parliaments, protest, barrack, berate, harangue, abuse even, be arrested then release only the following day return to start the action all over again.

Protesters can stand, on occasion even forcefully refuse emergency services from carrying out essential life saving duties. Police standing by impotent.

That is a undeniable.

Will you even for a moment question the government of China actions, refusal to acknowledged that the people of China Taiwan Hong Kong have a basic human right to choose a future though democratic mandate?

Fos, at every turn you put Japan, its people, the continued Japan US treaties of mutual security cooperation down.

All whilst swinging every histrionic beasting, every skilled reference of whataboutery without any shame.

It is a healthy democracy that encourages political pulpit priests to pompously pontificate at will

That at the same time also accepts that Donald Trump likewise can openly vocally shame such a blatant pulpit abuse of religious reckless political interference.

The bottom line here, the people of Japan US have the right to choose.

Can that equally be stated for the People of China????

Democracy Fos,

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, not even a plaque of commemoration remembrance.

Itsonlyrockandroll

I can see your position, and we can can have this conversation back and forth. Politely :)

You seem to be fixated with the bad of China, which, I suspect comes from your education, no contempt here, as of Japan vs China past relations: historical facts and confrontations which have not been resolved and are still disputed. They say: look at what happened in Manchuria, and you point out Tiananmen Square. 

I would go past that, with all due respect. I encourage you to travel to China, like I did many times, and to visit United States of America. Not the Hawaii Island or the Hollywood Hills, but the real America, the one who voted for Trump. 

We had this conversation before about China, which you consider evil. And I said, yes, it is not a liberal democracy (if that has any moral code these days), but the country does not attack Western values. You can criticize the form of government but need to admit the Communist Party was able to lift over 500 million people out of poverty in just a few decades. China in the 1960’s had lower GDP per capita than most African countries. Now it is the second biggest economy in the world and an upper middle income country. 

On the other hand we have a list of countries permanently ‘damaged’ by the United States of America with their failed wars, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria, I could go on. And how can justify the NATO enlargement in Eastern Europe and the terrible mass killings ongoing in the Middle East, supported but he current and all the past administrations.

They are creating huge frictions to the world by instigating constant threats, flaring up tensions all over the globe for the sole aim of enriching the big industrial military complex. You would not explain these huge profits of the US financial markets over a period of geopolitical instability. This is what I call Greed&Guns. 

And that, frankly is unforgivable.

Fos I must state holding no ill will, or have any grudges for the long suffering people of China, victims of a dictatorship government.

I don't hid my opinions, after all they are just personal opinions on the government of China.

The government of Japan has a duty to protect its people, its borders, it economy from aggressors.

The Government of China has increased it milltary "incursion's" into Japan exclusive economic zone 

Trends in China Coast Guard and Other Vessels in the Waters Surrounding the Senkaku Islands, and Japan's Response

https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/page23e_000021.html

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba must pursue a clear commitment from US new administration to link arms to ensure a future for the next generation to remain free from tyranny.

Sorry I know this will irritate you, however Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China is intent to dominate the entire Asia–Pacific region, it sea trading routes, its air space.

Taiwan, Hong Kong is only the beginning.

itsonlyrocknroll

I am not irritated, why would I be? I am more surprised that in Japan there are educated people who buy this narrative designed by the US industrial military complex, essentially to frighten the public opinion into thinking they need the US for protection, and to further justify the American military presence in Asia.

I find this stale, anodyne account misleading in many ways. I believe there's no way China are going to attack Japan in 2025, they have absolutely no reason to do that. 

China has been the heavyweight in Asia for centuries if not thousands years, and Japan by all means should work towards better ties and understanding - for peace and economic prosperity.

I feel terribly sorry to see that Japan remains a client-state of the USA, and completely outraged for the common citizens. It is simply a waste of taxpayer money and does nothing to enhance the security of Japan.

I could go on but I am not really trying to convince anybody :)