Abe vows bold departure from postwar Constitution, education system

Just how does trying to force nationalism and patriotism achieve this? Further how will the tax break reductions, increased taxes, probable consumption tax and increased burdens upon family incomes make them feel the fruits of recovery? More like the spoiled fruits of recovery.

Where in this plan are real things that would achieve this statement. Like better immigration and naturalization programs to encourage the growth of a foreign work force to help support both tax and benefits costs in the future? Or better guarantees for wages and enforcement of labor laws to improve quality of life for all workers in Japan? Where are the economic awards that the public should expect to see as the fruits of recovery? From what he has said they can look more forward to saying goodbye to more of their income rather than seeing more come in. The sharing of fruit seems limited to the wealthy at present.

And lastly. How does forcing children to spend even more time at school and having nationalistic nonsense driven into their heads help anyone? Try teaching them critical thinking that will help with innovation. And try working on initiatives to give families more time together so that the youth of today do not end up as alienated and lost as the current generation of freeters and neets.

Abe, you plan has no substance. And what platforms it does have offer little more than spoiled fruits for most Japanese. No wonder you are nearly as unpopular with Japanese as your good friend GWB is with Americans.

 

Everyone can promise, but a true leader have to show a plan, explain it to the people and guide us to that objective. He have like four months in the office and still dont' have even a simple, basic, limited plan. Whit him, the only thing that progress is ready the country for sending troops to Afganistan and Irak. Also these administration have corruption scandals almost every month. The economic recovery cant' survive if these administration dont' keep reforming the system. Bah..! We are saying these for months and he only keep speaking about a beautiful J that he cant' explain.

 

I don't think Nationalism is being forced down anyones throat. But patriotism is. The current generation of neets and freeters as mentioned need something to make them proud to be Japanese and that is what he is trying to promote. Proud people are just that and they try to do things to be proud of. This generation of young needs to wake up and start being a bit more positive about their lives. Anyone with any ambition can clean house here as there are so many willing to roll over and become a 'freeter'. By doing some changing in the current system like labour and labour law enforcement making better conditions for workers may give more the desire to join a big company and do some 'innovation'.

Therefore I see nothing wrong with what Abe says. He just wants to improve the country and recognizes that it needs to be done over various aspects of society. Mareo tend to think that he has no plan but I bet his advisors are dreaming up things, some practical some completely useless like increasing school hours. The point being that someone besides only Abe is working on ideas. But to sell those ideas to the rest of the politicians that feel the change to come too quickly will be his biggest obstacle.

 

As a Chinese, I want to say that I have finally for the first time seen some real balls from a Japanese PM.

 

Yeah, Hitler had real balls too. Both childless narcissists. Basically this bitter pill of getting rid of the pacifist constitution that served Japan so well for 50+ years would be so much more easily swallowed if the government officially made amends for war atrocities and established some formal payment to survivors with a monument to them. Just saying "we hope you forget the past because we already did" means we cannot trust Japan learned any lesson from WWII.

 

I agree whit some of your points, in special about that the young ned "something". But in my opinion that is not patriotism. Is a new education that motivate them to dream and think outside the box, not' one that say that if you dont' go to a famous university and join a big company, your life have a very gray future. In place of becoming freeters because they dont' like the old japanese way of work, they ned to open their own busisness and the NEETs are responsability of their parents, if they dont' throw them to the street they are to soft. I recognize to you, that more hours, phisical punishment and singing kimigayo "is" a plan, but dont' sounds to me like an idea that can bring a new generation of innovative inventors and busisnesman. Just the old hardworkers and now good soldiers to.

Er... of course he cant' think everything, but honestly, you dont' get impression that these administration take more time for steal money and only when some problem arise, they react whit a plan that looks very improvised?

 

well said..

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Abe sees the problem but what is the plan beside making speaking. The education reform really got off on the wrong foot with the report issued on Tuesday.

 

was to equip people with knowledge to earn their livelihood. thereby making them productive citizens. How is waving the Hinomaru and screaming "Banzai!" at the tops of their lungs going to achieve this, hmmmm?

 

Seems to me that the current constitution was a lot more modern and progressive than anything that has followed it.

As I understand it the current constitution forbids discrimination on the grounds of race? But in all the time since they have had that constitution no Japanese politician has ever gotten around to actualy making a LAW that forbids discrimination based on race. (!)

How Japan ever expects to operate in a global workforce and economy when foriegn workers find that they have no protection from discrimination I don't know.

(plus jury trials, independent judiciary, equal rights for women etc.. wouldn't be a bad start for a modern Reboot. )

 

Write your own . Next be yourself as a nation . . All you are at the moment is a dog being told to sit.

 

Abe's mission is gutter level nationalism and militarism. He is no better than the scummy rightists who parade around with their sound trucks. Freeters and neets do not cause wars. People like Abe do.

 

You had a tough day today? Calm down now.
Abe didn't even visit Yasukuni yet!!!
Now enlighten us and explain us why YOU think Abe causes wars.

 

. . . or anyone else in the LDP. Forcing kids to stay at school longer to receive indoctrination about how wonderful it is to be a Japanese, salute the flag, sing the "Emperor is God" song, and pretty soon, worship the same Emperor-God, is not healthy, it is sick. Revising the Constitution, introducing jackboot education, not teaching your kids the true history of their country, calling women "childbearing machines" attributing an increase in crime to foreigners, doing nothing about the vast amount of social and racial discrimination that abounds in this country, these policies will never produce a "beautiful" Japan, but a very sick and a very ugly one.

Abe has not started any wars yet- but he is moving in that direction. As for his insane comment that he wants to produce a Japan that wilol be a role-model for the rest of the world in the 21st century? What a joke! There are more than 100 suicides in this country every day, with constant disruption to the Tokyo Metropolitan railway system. There are thousand of himeless, forgotten people living in Tokyo`s parks and along the Sumida River. There is a sub-culture of buyying in this country. None of these deep social issues were addressed or even mentioned in Abe`s 40-minute Fascist rhetoric. Only mindless, ethnocentric extreme Nationalism.
This is not the weay forward - its the way backwards - to the Dark Ages.

 

Abe hasn't thoroughly thought out these "bold reforms." To truly flush out his “bold” ideas, he would need cabinet members that are not only politically astute but tactical geniuses as well. Most of his cabinet members, however, are remarkably careless, thoughtless, lazy, and fundamentally stupid people that he HAD TO APPOINT to clear up the political favors that made him prime minister. It’s really all just such a joke.