"Japan's Abe Is the World's Best Leader"

[Russell]

its because renho has rejected to publicize the very day that she insisted naturalized as japanese, despite of the fact she is a public character aiming to be a future prime minister of japan. it must not be tolerated. this chinese woman really stinks as shit.

Hmm, Alex Jones has accused Hillary to be a demon because she allegedly smells like sulfur...

[Takechanpoo]

in case of a private citizen, dual citizenship is not so problematic but in case of a public character, needless to say, not only in japan but also in UK...

Being American could have put Johnson in an awkward spot had he put himself forth for prime minister. Andrew Blick, a political history professor at King’s College in London, said there are few formal requirements for the position but that no premier has held a dual citizenship.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... president/
although there is a difference that UK is Jus soli while japan is Jus sanguinis, this is the reason Boris Johnson gave up becoming a prime minister of UK. some gaijin fellows in the comment sections of japantoday and other ones insisted that its a harassment to blame renho of the dual citizenship issue. which fucking country allows such an umbrella bitch to become the chief executive of their parliament? can you tell me? pls.

[wagyl]

this is the reason Boris Johnson gave up becoming a prime minister of UK.

No. He gave up because he didn't have sufficient support/his buddy stabbed him in the back. Is it not more dangerous to have someone with divided allegiances in charge of foreign policy? In fact, Boris has renounced his US citizenship a few years ago.

which fucking country allows such an umbrella bitch to become the chief executive of their parliament? can you tell me? pls.

It may be a matter of definition but do you consider Germany to be a successor state to the German Democratic Republic, or did the German Democratic Republic get subsumed? Angela has done well to get where she is from where she was.

The following office holders have held US and Israeli citizenship simultaneously, with potential conflicts of interest:
Attorney General
Head of Homeland Security
Chairman Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board
Deputy Defense Secretary
Under Secretary of Defense
National Security Council Advisor
Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff
White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Director of Policy Planning at the State Department –
U.S. Trade Representative (Cabinet-level Position)
Pentagon’s Defense Policy Boardmembers
UN Representative
Under Secretary for Arms Control
Senior Advisor to the President
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Assistant Secretary of State
Deputy Assistant to the President
White House Political Director
National Security Study Group member
Defense Intelligence Agency Analyst
National Security Council Advisor
President Export-Import Bank U.S.
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs
White House Speechwriter
White House Spokesman
Deputy Secretary of Commerce
Under Secretary of State for Management
Director of Foreign Service Institute
Federal Reserve Chair
Federal Reserve Vice-Chair

[kurogane]

Not to support the usual irrelevant tangentificationalising (not you 2), but didn't she break a significant law and then lie bald faced about it? I assume we all agree the nationality laws seem restrictive (they are for me), but she knew that when she was a private citizen, never mind the leader of the national opposition. That is a serious infraction in MYHOMO. What gets me is Their side gets these Snidely Whiplash level villains and Our Side brings out the Keystone Cops to try and catch them in the act.
I wonder how many ex-lefty liberals that do that Olde White Guy thing and go Angry Right Wing do it out of simple disgust for the mental mediocrity and sophomoric incompetence of the right thinkers (by which I mean Left Thinkers)? I feel like I am herding wingless budgies when I try to discuss political strategy and tactics with people of a sympatico political bent.

[Takechanpoo]

its highly suspected she violated the misrepresentation of public office election law(公職選挙法). in case that you have dual citizenship and arent japanese national, you need to declare you are japanese nationality to withdraw the gaijin nationality. but this damn Renho didnt do that and she announced her candidacy in the last election while keeping dual citizenship. and probably its the reason she has rejected to publicize the official copy of her family register.

[Coligny]

in case that you have dual citizenship and arent japanese national, you need to declare you are japanese nationality to withdraw the gaijin nationality.

Is it a drinking game ?

Please tell me this is a drinking game...

[wuchan]

its highly suspected she violated the misrepresentation of public office election law(公職選挙法). in case that you have dual citizenship and arent japanese national, you need to declare you are japanese nationality to withdraw the gaijin nationality. but this damn Renho didnt do that and she announced her candidacy in the last election while keeping dual citizenship. and probably its the reason she has rejected to publicize the official copy of her family register.

holding dual citizenship is not against election law which is why the LDP is trying to make a new law.


can you read any language?

[Samurai_Jerk]

its highly suspected she violated the misrepresentation of public office election law(公職選挙法). in case that you have dual citizenship and arent japanese national, you need to declare you are japanese nationality to withdraw the gaijin nationality. but this damn Renho didnt do that and she announced her candidacy in the last election while keeping dual citizenship. and probably its the reason she has rejected to publicize the official copy of her family register.

holding dual citizenship is not against election law which is why the LDP is trying to make a new law.


can you read any language?

Korean, I'm sure.

[Takechanpoo]

from my post of other thread
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=30122&p=387616&hilit=renho+magazine#p387616
she proudly insisted in magazine interview of 1997 that her nationality was taiwan.
but

ren-1.jpg

its from her poster of the election of 2004, in which is written in her profile that she naturalized from taiwan to japan in 1985.
no doubt that this umbrella bitch is lying blatantly.

[Takechanpoo]

[Coligny]

They are actively trying to get killed ?

Can we forward them videos of emergency ambulance that have motorbike support to slow and divert traffic on the way ?

[Taro Toporific]

PM Poopypants Abe at his Pearl Harbor speech of Dec. 27 spoke of, "a war that commenced in this very place," like it it "commenced" all on its own, without anybody doing anything or being responsible, hurr-hurr.

usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-12-27/obama-japans-abe-to-seek-reconciliation-at-pearl-harbor
"As the prime minister of Japan, I offer my sincere and everlasting condolences {but no apology} to the souls of those who lost their lives here, as well as to the spirits of all the brave men and women whose lives were taken by a war that commenced in this very place."

[Wage Slave]

PM Poopypants Abe at his Pearl Harbor speech of Dec. 27 spoke of, "a war that commenced in this very place," like it it "commenced" all on its own, without anybody doing anything or being responsible, hurr-hurr.

And as though war was not already well established thanks to earlier mysterious commencements.

[kurogane]

It seems almost unfair to blame the Chinese for everything, but that would be a good start:

1937: Full-scale invasion of China
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced the Kuomintang policy of resistance against Japan at Lushan on July 10, 1937, three days after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

On the night of July 7, 1937, Chinese and Japanese troops exchanged fire in the vicinity of the Lugou (or Marco Polo) bridge, a crucial access-route to Beijing. What began as confused, sporadic skirmishing soon escalated into a full-scale battle in which Beijing and its port city of Tianjin fell to Japanese forces (July–August 1937). On July 29, some 5,000 troops of the 1st and 2nd Corps of the East Hopei Army mutinied, turning against the Japanese garrison. In addition to Japanese military personnel, some 260 civilians living in Tongzhou in accordance with the Boxer Protocol of 1901, which was signed after Japan invaded China during the Boxer Rebellion and engaged in atrocities and massacres against civilians, were killed in the uprising (predominantly Japanese including the police force and also some ethnic Koreans). The Chinese then set fire to and destroyed much of the city. Only around 60 Japanese civilians survived, who provided both journalists and later historians with firsthand witness accounts. As a result of the violence of the mutiny against Japanese civilians, the Tungchow mutiny, as it came to be called, strongly shook public opinion within Japan. Most[quantify] historians regard the initial skirmishes at the bridge, known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War

Stupid people fighting wars they can't win seems almost a cause celebre of late.

[Russell]

PM Poopypants Abe at his Pearl Harbor speech of Dec. 27 spoke of, "a war that commenced in this very place," like it it "commenced" all on its own, without anybody doing anything or being responsible, hurr-hurr.

usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-12-27/obama-japans-abe-to-seek-reconciliation-at-pearl-harbor
"As the prime minister of Japan, I offer my sincere and everlasting condolences {but no apology} to the souls of those who lost their lives here, as well as to the spirits of all the brave men and women whose lives were taken by a war that commenced in this very place."

I think no apology is needed.

It is an act of war, after all...
(by which I mean soldiers were targeted, not civilians)

[kurogane]

Verily. I have been making an effort to distinguish between the 50/50 of the Pacific War and the murderous invasive crap they pulled in Asia to varying degrees of success. Lately I seem to get better audience, but that might be an Okinawan thing. They had a "different" war.

[Takechanpoo]

evil merican soldiers gradually flame-throwered lots of okinawan japanese, including innocent women and children, to be charred and death just like roasting chicken, pig and cow. and to avert ppls eyes from the evilness and savageness, english medias persistently report and emphasize the imperial mainland japanese forcing small amount of okinawan to commit collective suicide. fucking hypocrites

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

PM Poopypants Abe at his Pearl Harbor speech of Dec. 27 spoke of, "a war that commenced in this very place," like it it "commenced" all on its own, without anybody doing anything or being responsible, hurr-hurr.

usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-12-27/obama-japans-abe-to-seek-reconciliation-at-pearl-harbor
"As the prime minister of Japan, I offer my sincere and everlasting condolences {but no apology} to the souls of those who lost their lives here, as well as to the spirits of all the brave men and women whose lives were taken by a war that commenced in this very place."

It's a factually incorrect statement, anyway.
The Japanese first attacked Allied forces in Malaya, hours before Pearl Harbor.

[wagyl]

It's a factually incorrect statement, anyway.
The Japanese first attacked Allied forces in Malaya, hours before Pearl Harbor.

I've never really followed up on this: is this talking local time, like the fact that New Zealand declared war on Germany hours before the British local time, but after in universal time, or is it that the attack on Malaya was prior to Pearl Harbor (sic)? Whatever the case, the charge down the Malayan Peninsula was phenomenal. Get me one of those bicycles!

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Malaya

[wagyl]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Malaya

Very interesting. Pearl Harbor thus has zero importance, as it was just another skirmish in an ongoing war. Whether Pearl Harbor had been aborted or not, the outcome would have been the same.

I still want one of those bicycles.

[Takechanpoo]

https://www.facebook.com/presidentialco ... 034428585/

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

https://www.facebook.com/presidentialco ... 034428585/

He run away from the deserted descendants of Japanese sex tourists pretty quickly...unless it was the diarrhea again.

[legion]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Malaya

I've been to that very beach, by bicycle, I got a flat tire on the way back.

[matsuki]

He run away from the deserted descendants of Japanese sex tourists pretty quickly...unless it was the diarrhea again.

...but unless they were raped/fathered on minors, not so sure there are any legit gripes with the J-gov.

[Coligny]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Malaya

I've been to that very beach, by bicycle, I got a flat tire on the way back.

Did you sleep at the holiday inn ?

[Russell]

In Japan, a scandal over a school threatens to entangle Abe

Japan’s prime minister is facing the biggest crisis of his tenure, caught up in a burgeoning scandal that involves a shady land deal, allegations of a coverup and a kindergarten sending out notes about “wicked” Koreans and Chinese.

Shinzo Abe strongly denies any wrongdoing, and his wife, Akie Abe, has resigned as “honorary principal” of the planned school at the center of the firestorm. But the scandal shows no sign of going away anytime soon.

“There are so many questions that need to be answered,” said Koichi Nakano, a professor of political science at Sophia University and sharp critic of the Abe government. “We don’t know whether Abe was directly involved, but even if he wasn’t, this will still hurt him.”

It all started with a local story about hate speech.

Tsukamoto kindergarten in Toyonaka, Osaka prefecture, sent a letter to parents in which it described Korean residents of Japan and Chinese people as having “wicked ideas,” using a derogatory term for Chinese.

Yasunori Kagoike, the chairman of the organization that runs the private kindergarten, has admitted to sending the letter.

A separate note said, “The problem is that people who have inherited the spirit [of Koreans] exist in our country with the looks of Japanese people.” Kyodo News reported the contents of the letter, citing a copy obtained from a parent.

A video from a sports day in 2015, also obtained by Kyodo, shows a child at the school saying: “We want China and South Korea, which portray Japan as a villain, to be repentant. We’ll root for Prime Minister Abe.”

Abe sought to distance himself from the school Monday, saying under questioning in the Diet, or parliament, that he had no idea what was being taught.

Abe had previously described Kagoike as having “an ideology similar to mine” but said Monday that it was not appropriate for a school leader to discriminate “based on race, nationality and religion.”

“Of course I don’t want the kids to root for me like that, and I don’t think it’s an appropriate thing for them to say,” Abe said.

Osaka is home to a high proportion of Japan’s ethnically Korean residents, a legacy of Japan’s colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula in the early 20th century.

Children aged 3 to 5 who attend the private kindergarten sing the national anthem in front of the Japanese flag and recite the Imperial Rescript on Education, an 1890 tract that calls on Japanese to “offer yourselves courageously to the state” to “guard and maintain the prosperity of our Imperial throne.” The rescript was abolished after Japan’s defeat in World War II, when the emperor’s role in Japan was reduced to that of a ceremonial figurehead.

The kindergarten, whose website says it will teach children to “respect the courtesy of Japanese and foster patriotism,” apologized for the “misunderstanding” about its statements.

But the scandal really erupted when it emerged that Moritomo Gakuen, the educational organization that runs the kindergarten, had bought a plot of land for what it hoped would become the “Shinzo Abe Memorial Elementary School” at a vastly reduced price.

The new school, which is due to open in April, touts itself on its website as the “first and only Shinto elementary school” and says it will “foster children who hold pride in being Japanese and have a solid backbone.” Shinto is the animist religion of Japan, and Abe is an adherent.

Moritomo Gakuen paid $1.2 million last year for a two-acre plot of land that was appraised at $8.4 million. The discount was ostensibly because the land contained buried rubbish and some contamination, although the state reimbursed the organization almost $1.2 million — the same as the sale price — for cleanup costs.

“Didn’t the state give the land away for free?” asked Takeshi Miyamoto, a lawmaker in Japan’s Communist Party.

A neighboring, slightly larger plot of land was sold to the city of Toyonaka to build a park for $12.5 million — 10 times the amount the school paid — in 2010.

Now, the Finance Ministry is saying that it threw out the records on the land negotiation after the deal was concluded, leading opposition politicians to accuse the government of a coverup. The Board of Audit is investigating.

Abe said that he asked Moritomo Gakuen not to use his name in connection with the school but that the organization has ignored the request in its fundraising drive.

“It is extremely regrettable that my name was used in that manner despite my repeated requests to stop it,” Abe told a parliamentary committee last week. He has said he will resign as both prime minister and as a member of parliament if he or his wife are found to have done anything wrong.

Akie Abe, who had previously praised the principal’s “passion,” was to serve as honorary principal of the school. But she resigned from the post Friday, and all reference to her was scrubbed from the school’s website.

The case has triggered allegations not just of bigotry but of political collusion.

Kagoike, the chairman of the educational organization, is an executive member of the Osaka chapter of Nippon Kaigi, a nationalist group that has close ties to the prime minister and numerous members of his ruling party, including some in his cabinet.

Nippon Kaigi has among its goals to “nurture patriotism” and to adopt a new constitution “based on our nation’s true characteristics,” rather than the document written by Japan’s American occupiers after World War II.

Abe, an arch-conservative who has said he wants to make Japan a “beautiful country” again, has been working to revise the constitution to loosen some of the postwar shackles imposed on Japan.

But Nippon Kaigi’s goals are widely seen as intended to restore the strength Japan had before the war. Kagoike promoted constitutional revision in a newsletter to kindergarten parents, encouraging them to “emulate a great man like Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.”

If the case continues to snowball and if Abe is found to have a greater role than disclosed, it could gravely hurt the prime minister, analysts say.

“This could be so damaging that it could shake the foundation of the Abe administration,” said Eiken Itagaki, a political analyst and former reporter for the left-leaning Mainichi newspaper.

The case encompassed local political and budgetary issues, but it also could cause a diplomatic storm with Japan’s closest neighbors. “Prime Minister Abe might think this story is a minor issue, but it has the potential to become very damaging,” Itagaki said.

Abe has been enjoying approval ratings above 60 percent in polls and faces very few challenges, either from within his party or from the main opposition Democratic Party. But the widening scandal could cause him to delay plans to dissolve the lower house of parliament and call a general election.

Link

Excellent story by the Washington Post, much better than what I found in English-language Japanese newspapers.

Go to the their web site for relevant links and pics.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Just comes at the right time, methinx. Abe stepping down because of this would cost him a lot less of his reputation than if he had to admit that abenomics has failed miserably.

[Coligny]

Dear gods... it's like watching the asshatery paralympics...

[Takechanpoo]

Japan’s prime minister is facing the biggest crisis of his tenure

simply no. as long as c and k dont stop anti-japan policy, abes status is unshakable.