Abe: We will not deploy US military bases in the Northern Territories (Kuriles)
The signing of a peace treaty in 1956 provided for the subsequent transfer to the Japanese of the two islands of the Kuril ridge - Shikotan and Habomai. At the same time, the treaty provided for Japan’s military neutrality. In other words, no foreign military bases.
As is known, Japan then rejected the provisions of this agreement. Moreover, it rejected mainly because of the position of the United States, which declared that they should demand the return of all the Southern Kuriles to Tokyo.
Today, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe decided to “rejoice” Russia with a statement that if Shikotan and Habomai were transferred to Japan, American military bases would not be stationed on these islands. In fact, this statement looks either ridiculous or hypocritical. The fact is that there is a treaty between Tokyo and Washington that gives the United States the opportunity to deploy its military bases anywhere in Japan.
Tokyo said that the United States cannot deploy its bases without the consent of the Japanese authorities. This is even more ridiculous, because whenever the Americans requested permission to build another base in Okinawa, the Japanese government took the visor and certainly agreed with the "urgent need for the emergence of a new US military facility to protect the Japanese islands."
At the same time, in Tokyo, some have forgotten about the mentioned neutral military status under the treaty of 1956. In a military neutral country there can be no military bases of another state at all. That is, to begin with, Shinzo Abe needs to rid Japan of numerous US military bases in the south, and only then declare its readiness to consider “next steps” as part of the 1956 agreement of the year. The president of Russia transparently and hinted at this at the press conference. And something tells us that the US troops are not going to leave Japan ...
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