But it’s always a serious matter for people of Okinawa bceause there has been many troubles concerned with the American military base.  I don’t like to pick the problems up for the topic of this blog.  As far as I know, the problems are always caused by the people working in the base.

But this matter exists more in the basic discussion if the base was really needed in Okinawa or in Japan.

As most of the prople of the world know, Japan is a kind of colony of the USA after the war. Constitution was given by the USA, political parties were formed by the USA ( from the back of the stage we know),  education, industry, fiscal system, and the military system were all led by the USA after the war.  Japanese politicians can’t say NO to US government.

This time, the new leading party of Japan tries to change the system given by the USA after the war. That’s why Japan is beaten by them recently. Maybe this is the common understanding among Japanese people about recent US-Japan relationship.

I don’t think Japan wants to break the relation with the USA, but probably the NEW Japan wants to say what they think.  Actually many of Okinawa people think they don’t need the base in Okinawa.  American government often say ” what if you Okinawa is faced with military invasion from others ?” ” Who would protect you ?”.

If Okinawa or Japan is ever invaded,  it’s the fate of Japan. Japan need to judge if they fight back or surrender. That’s all.  Not only Japan but many of the countries would face the same thing if the same situation happens.  Japan must protect Japan herself.  This is what we all think.

If the US base is gone, Japan will firstly face serious change in military balance. But it’s also the fate of Japan as the others have the same fate.

Many of Japanese don’t know why the USA  wants to stay in Japan in this situation as Okinawa says “No More”.  If they don’t stay in Japan, they can save more money and they don’t have to risk American life outside America. We don’t know why they want to keep staying in us.

Even without the military base in Japan, I think we can keep good relation with the USA.  Probably my idea is wrong when it comes to the matter of countries, matter of money, or matter of the world ruling.

Now the politics of Japan is on the changing stage, I think. Many small parties are being born, which means the biggest party, Democratric Party, is too strong and the others seems to have no power to beat it.  Staying on the present power balance means they in the parties out of office will lose in the next election.  It’s natural for them to make new parties, nobody wants to lose their jobs without trying something.

In this situation, maybe the qualitied voters would be losing the right judgement because there are too many information from media.

I was one of them, or I may be still one of them who lose the vision easily by the influence of media information.  At least, I know that I’m such a person. That’s why I don’t watch TV any more.  I really think accepting all the information from media into my thought is really dangerous. 

If we want to accept it, I think we should think about the information again… if it’s true or not…before taking them into ourselves. 

Jpanese media always report from only one side, it’s really dangerous.

Many of them know that Japanese media are working closely with powerful politicians. And the controlling power of the politicians are hiding deep in the backside of society.  It means what we nation see on the TV is not news of justice.  We are controlled by the big power through the media, in other words, we are always brainwashed through media.

Recently some may know this fact in Japan. But still most of the peolpe don’t know the truth in the backside.  They don’t think by their own head, they just accept what media say.  Then it does not change.

If somebody ever explains about the tricks on us, can they notice the truth ? Probably NO. Majority of them will still be the same because they prefer smiling without thinking.  Difficulty of democracy always stays here.

I lament Japan ? Yes, I do. About this, it’s really tragic.

But seeing the media of the world, especially in the advanced countries, I think most of them are almost the same situation as we have in Japan.  It’s a world tragedy.

This means that  Japan has been constantly buying US bonds whatever Japanese economy situation may be.  We know that accumulating amount of US bonds has no value because Japan can’t sell it.  But the money to buy the bonds are from national tax of Japanese people. 

Japanese economy is not based on money business.  Most of the tax are from ordinary people’s labor at factory or companies. It’s like product of people’s blood and sweat. 

Japan is in serious economic situation, but Japan is buying. Why ?

But China seems to have taken place of the NO.1 trading status for Japan, according to the recent news.

This is a good news.  It’s really natural that close countries have closer relationship. We still like the USA but it wasn’t healthy that Japan and China had little relation after the war.

China deserves to be admired as a big power of the world now. And it’s our pleasure to have such good relationship with a neighbor country. Both countries’ prosperity is an ideal situation for both nation’s happiness.

When Japan goes close to China, American media sometimes write like ” Which do you Japan choose, America or China ?”  But this is not a good question for us because we like both. 

Also some media in western world sometimes write like ” If Japan and China make allience, it would be the world NO.1 allience in economy and power “.  Why is it bad ?

If a strong relationship is possible between Japan and China, it means the time of “peace of east Asia”. Its really good, isn’t it ?

Some say that western countires, especially the leading western contries, don’t like peace of Japan -China, Japan- Korea, or even China-Korea because this allience would be really powerful influence in the world.  That’s why they expect the present situation ( struggling situation about territory problems or something ) would continue, for being apart from each other. This is not believable, but some often say like this recently.

It’s true that Asian countries have always been under huge influence of western countries in politics and economy. Especially before the war, most of the countries were colonies of Western countries. Even after the war, Asian countries needed to accept the standard of western countires’ rules.  We don’t say it’s bad or good.

All we are saying is give Asia a chance.

Anyway, we like China.  Media often say Japanese don’t like China. It’s not true. There are many China fans in Japan too.  Certainly there are some troubles between China and us. But it’s all the same in any 2 country relationships. There should be some kind of discussion or dispute in any places.  We, Asian countries, should see the large part of successful future rather than seeing troubles only.

To Japanese media:

You can report anything, of course, you can report troubles. However, you must see from fair position. Don’t focus the troubles first, please let us know how it’s now successful. I don’t know about Chinese media, at least, Japanese media need to write the positive aspects too.  Writing troubles too much makes us get scared too much before knowing the friendship.  After that, please write the USA and European countries opinions.  This is our request.

Interestingly, impression of president Obama is not bad at all in Japan. Previous presidents of the USA were not always kind to Japan, they often threatened Japan when troubles happened. We know that Japan always needed to obey with the USA, it’s like a puppet for the USA.

Mayor of Hiroshima City seems to have visited president Obama.  He also asked Obama to visit Hiroshima someday in the near future. Obama also said that he would like to come to Hiroshima.

As it’s known, Hiroshima is the city where the atomic bomb fell down for the first time on the earth by the USA when the war was about to end.

If president Obama could visit Hiroshima, it would be a symbolic peace event for Japan. 

Around Japan, there are always some kind of troubles concerning the peace.  Sometimes nuclear weapons becomes agenda for the choice of self defence in spite that we know the tragic power of the weapons.

Erasing the nuclear weapons is probably a dream, which will not be realized.  Wars happen where the tragedy is not told,  wars happen where the war is needed for money or for power maintenance.

This is totally dangerous becuase all the nation might think the same by the same opinions from media.

Many critics also point it out but media don’t pick up the different opinion.  This is really strange for all of us.

Ichiro Ozawa looks a little tricky and we don’t know what he really thinks of.  All we know about him is always though the media of Japan.  Media always pick up his faults, so we all often think he would be a bad guy.

But is it really so ?

At least, yes, at least, we don’ know what he really is like.  All we know about him is all based on the image from media.  In addition, some ( or many ) critics say that Ozawa is a real patriot or at least he is a real politician thinking about Japanese independence from super power and realizing the real democracy of Japan.

Certainly,  if we search about him on Google in Japanese, we can find a lot of different information about Ichoro Ozawa.

Now he is in the middle of scandal by Japanese media.   Sooner or later, we will know what is happening now.

Since the new Japanese leading party, Democratic Party, took place at the last election, the special investigation team of prosecution at Tokyo district prosecutors’ office continuously kept investigating Ichiro Ozawa and Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama.  This is really an irregular investigation in the history of Japanese politics cases.

We, Japanese nation, often doubt if the prosecutors are doing right about it.

Also Japanese media look crazy about the recent Ozawa’s case because absolutely all the media report the same news from the same angle. Why ?

We want to know the both side opinions, but the media report the news only from the side of prosecutors.  It’s often said that the information leak is coming through the prosecutors, not from the politicians or parties.  If it is really so, media have to report from the side of politicians too.

When doubtful politicians become news on TV or papers, they are always blamed by the bad impression through media before they are judged at the court.  This is not fair.

Many of good politicians who worked for the future of Japan actually lost their status by this artificial  impression by media of Japan.

We want to see various critics’ opinions rather than one angle opinion.  Otherwise, nation can’t have enough information to judge the right and wrong.

In Japan, the constitution says that the voting right rests with the Japanese nation, so it means the suffrage needs Japanese nationality, and not for the permanent residents if they don’t have the nationality.

This new suffrage is mainly for the Koreans in Japan, some news papers say.  Democratic party seems to have promised to discuss this matter with Korean people group in Japan before they won the election, so they need to do this now.

To be honest, I don’t agree to this because the constitution says NO.  If this is allowed, the meaning of the constitution has no more spirits of the country of Japan.  Many in Japan disagree to this.

Some think that it’s not good because Koreans don’t like Japan. If the Koreans living in Japan have the voting right, they would try to confuse Japan.  This is the other concern of some people.

When we think of Japanese politics, it’s really complicated and it has hidden history inside and outside Japan.  So it’s really hard to say in public about the justice of Japanese politics.  Often I don’t know which is right or wrong.

One thing I want to say is that we must be careful about the suffrage or immigrant law.  We’ve seen many countries that has been changed much after the increase of immigrants, and they often have many troubles by the changes.

No matter who would have the voting right, we must first stand beside the spirit of constitution.  Otherwise, nothing can bind our mind together.

Before going to the discussion on this matter, we should say NO because the constitution doesn’t allow it.

Importance of the alliance is always on the agenda when some troubles happen between 2 countries.

But many Japanese often say Japan is a kind of colony of the USA.  Japan is not the superpower of the world. It’s natural that Japan is influenced by the big power no matter if it’s the USA or any other countries.

Around Japan, there are China and Russia.  And beyond the pacific ocean, the USA is situated.  So some point out that Japan needs to communicate more with China and Russia, rather than obeying with the USA all the time.

Japan had already been under the control of the USA when we first knew the democracy in Japan because the democracy of Japan was introduced by the USA.

Maybe the balance of the alliance is not stabled because the new leading party of Japan likes to talk with more countries than the USA.  I don’t always like all the policy made by the new leading party of Japan, but as far as nation selected it by voting, we need to look at the policy carefully.

The importance of 2 countries alliance was always emphasizedsince when the previous leading party was ruling Japan. But the previous party caused a tremendous amount of political corruption.

Either way, we need to go with the new leading party.