"Translator" job vacancy in Syonan-to soon.

[Leongsam]

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the country's pacifist post-World War II Constitution which limits its military to self-defence could be amended by 2020.

In a New Year comment published in the conservative daily Sankei Shimbun on Wednesday, Mr Abe predicted the Constitution "will have been revised" by 2020 when Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympics.

His comments come days after he enraged Asian neighbours and disappointed Washington by visiting a Tokyo shrine honouring the country's war dead, including World War II leaders, and been seen abroad as a symbol of Japan's militaristic past.

"(By 2020), I think Japan will have completely restored its status and been making great contributions to peace and stability in the region and the world," he said.

 

[Singapore]

nah...Japan has changed too much to be a military power again..

 

[eErotica69]

Sam is Nipponphobic?

 

[AhMeng]

Sam is Nipponphobic?

I am surely not Nipplephobic!

 

[eErotica69]

I am surely not Nipplephobic!

Me too... but only applies to Chiobus nipples.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the country's pacifist post-World War II Constitution which limits its military to self-defence could be amended by 2020.

In a New Year comment published in the conservative daily Sankei Shimbun on Wednesday, Mr Abe predicted the Constitution "will have been revised" by 2020 when Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympics.

His comments come days after he enraged Asian neighbours and disappointed Washington by visiting a Tokyo shrine honouring the country's war dead, including World War II leaders, and been seen abroad as a symbol of Japan's militaristic past.

"(By 2020), I think Japan will have completely restored its status and been making great contributions to peace and stability in the region and the world," he said.

Thoroughly predictable. Japan's pacifism was accepted after WWII in exchange for economic aid and access to western financial and consumer markets. It worked very well. Japan had 50 years of prosperity until its twin stock-cum-property bubble burst in the 1990s.

In the next two decades, japan will have to deal with the rising threat of China as well as the threat from the US in the form of the US Navy's control of the international shipping routes. The pacifism will have to be abandoned. The only surprise is that the Japanese government has officially announced a timetable for the end to this pacifism. That will certainly force America's and china's hands.

Watch for conflicts to escalate. We live in interesting times.

 

[laksaboy]

Time to employ some new comfort women.

 

[eErotica69]

Time to employ some new comfort women.

But we already have quite a number in Geylang.