Trump might be a blessing for Abe & Co.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Trump's rhetoric is now starting to worry Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's portrayal of Japan as a free-rider on security is stirring worries in Tokyo about damage to its U.S. alliance, and could embolden hardliners keen to bolster Japan's military in the face of a rising China.

The U.S.-Japan alliance has been the lynchpin of Tokyo's security policy for decades, but worries have simmered in recent years as to whether Washington will continue to be willing and able to defend its key Asian ally.

Comments from the Republican Party frontrunner have done little to allay those fears.

"If somebody attacks Japan, we have to immediately go and start World War III, okay? If we get attacked, Japan doesn't have to help us," Trump said at a campaign speech late last year. "Somehow, that doesn't sound so fair."

Trump has also accused Japan of stealing jobs and criticized the U.S.-led 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact that Tokyo sees as vital for strategic as well as economic reasons.

"If you listen to his comments (on security), the United States would become isolated so I think there is great anxiety for allied countries," Itsunori Onodera, who served as defense minister under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, told Reuters.

Last year, Abe spent considerable political capital enacting controversial legislation that allows Japan's military to defend friendly countries under attack, a major reinterpretation of the country's pacifist constitution.

"It is incumbent on Japan to protect itself and its defense is necessary for the alliance to be maintained in the best possible posture," said a source close to Abe.

Outdated vision

Abe also wants to formally revise the post-war charter to further loosen limits on military action overseas.

"Most people consider Trump bad news, but for those who want to revise the constitution and strengthen the military, it actually provides a boost for their position," said a former Western diplomat still in touch with Japanese policymakers.

[Takechanpoo]

some japanologists condemned this bigger-scaled Ishihara
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/tru ... apan-15328

[matsuki]

LOL, watch Trump get elected and become the hero of Okinawa for completely removing the US military.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Japan should fear Abe more than Trump. The scariest thing about Trump is that millions of Merkins are now confirming to the rest of the world that they are exactly the type of people the rest of us have been half-jokingly depicting them as.
Trump is a piece of shit, but still better than Hillary.
In the highly unlikely event of Trump being elected US Fuhrer, he won't be able to get anything past Congress that threatens the military industrial complex.

[Yokohammer]

Japan should fear Abe more than Trump.

Yup.

[Buraku]

Mar-a-Lago ‘under siege, raided, occupied’ by FBI agents, Trump says

[Coligny]

I heard he sold illegal tshirt with written “president of the united states”… most of reddit were tying their panties in knots over thes crimfullynested behaviour.

Meanwhile Pedoclintonstein and their Russian friends or Biden junior his ukrainian friends his underage girlfriends and his crack dealers are perfectly fine.

[Coligny]

I”d start a TDS coping thread if there was still more users than bots….

(Yes, I know, it’s all my fault because I posted too much trucks pictures and Yua Aida rants….)

[matsuki]

I got no love for Trump but TDS is hard to ignore...

The entitlement is strong with this one...

[Coligny]

You miss typed “absolute moronic stupidity”

[matsuki]

You miss typed “absolute moronic stupidity”

I thought that was implied. I'd still rail her though.

[Coligny]

. I'd still rail her though.

…i thought that was implied..