Seiharinokaze said...

Seiharinokaze at 04:01 PM JST - 24th July

China's same old ploy to deflect domestic disquiet particularly at this time by huffing and puffing about their indisputable sovereignty over something or anything available. Better not react to their internal affairs.

Posted in China says it holds 'indisputable sovereignty' over Senkaku Islands at 04:01 PM JST - 24th July
Seiharinokaze at 01:42 PM JST - 24th July

It has been pointed out by a number of military experts and world political scientists that the nuclear umbrella doesn't function actually. A nuclear power doesn't attack another nuclear power and doesn't secure its allies by the nuclear umbrella if it means to risk its own existence. That's why France,…

Posted in Should Japan have its own nuclear weapons as a deterrent against security threats or should it rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella? at 01:42 PM JST - 24th July
Seiharinokaze at 11:50 AM JST - 23rd July

kinniku,

How about referring to Mr. Kusaka or Mr. Ito for yourself? I just answered to your question where I found the information. They mentioned Nixon's handwritten memorandum about the secret agreements with Chou En-lai. I'm curious to read it too. Also Mr. Ito wrote in his book "Chugoku no…

Posted in Should Japan have its own nuclear weapons as a deterrent against security threats or should it rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella? at 11:50 AM JST - 23rd July
Seiharinokaze at 02:56 AM JST - 23rd July

kinniku,

Well, though I am not sure if Kissinger really said that it's absurd for the U.S. to fight with China for Japan, I and many other Japanese understand that America's basic policy with Japan is not to let Japan have autonomous defense capability. The U.S.-Japan Security Treaty is therefore…

Posted in Should Japan have its own nuclear weapons as a deterrent against security threats or should it rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella? at 02:56 AM JST - 23rd July
Seiharinokaze at 08:22 PM JST - 22nd July

kinniku,

I read it in a book titled "Dorehodo America Wa Hidoi Kunika (How awful a country America is)" by Kusaka Kiminndo and Takayama Masayuki (PHP, 2009). Mr. Kusaka seems to assume the secret agreement is about Japan going nuclear more than anything else. The former U.S. Secretary of Defense…

Posted in Should Japan have its own nuclear weapons as a deterrent against security threats or should it rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella? at 08:22 PM JST - 22nd July
Seiharinokaze at 01:04 PM JST - 22nd July

Nixon and Kissinger had an secret agreement with Chou En-lai when they met in 1972 that they would never let Japan go nuclear. It is still valid as their mutual basic policy on Japan. Besides it's not North Korea but Japan that is most strictly watched for its nuclear movements…

Posted in Should Japan have its own nuclear weapons as a deterrent against security threats or should it rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella? at 01:04 PM JST - 22nd July
Seiharinokaze at 02:54 PM JST - 18th July

Aso san is just the person who can say a requiem for LDP and the postwar system that his grand daddy devised. He might have been advised on it by the Pope when they met in Vatican earlier this month. Act of mortification maybe.

Anyway we have to thank him…

Posted in Lower house to be dissolved Tuesday for election; LDP in chaos at 02:54 PM JST - 18th July
Seiharinokaze at 02:53 PM JST - 17th July

By the spring of 1945, major cities of Japan had been almost nothing but burn-out ruins. It was matter of time that Japan would surrender. The government began to grope for termination of the war through mediation by the Soviets, the possibility of which the U.S. dared not pursue. Why?…

Posted in Designer Issey Miyake, writing in NYT, asks Obama to visit Hiroshima on Aug 6 at 02:53 PM JST - 17th July
Seiharinokaze at 02:26 PM JST - 16th July

What's interests me as far as I can see from the picture is that the people who offered a light before the dead souls seem to be from such common folks' living area across the river as Nakahara ward of Kawasaki and Katsushika ward of Tokyo. Widow's mite seems more…

Posted in Light up at 02:26 PM JST - 16th July
Seiharinokaze at 05:45 PM JST - 12th July

No wonder LDP is loosing its relevance. I can also see why the former finance minister Nakagawa lost his position. You will be ruined if you have enough nerve to sell U.S. Treasury Bonds you have accumulated to the FRB even to appropriate for the relocation in the U.S. territory.…

Posted in U.S. hails Japan's offer of $336 mil for U.S. forces realignment at 05:45 PM JST - 12th July