New Japanese "song" about the South Kurils
The words about “unprecedented” concessions from the Land of the Rising Sun with respect to Russia clearly amused the Russian public, if only because the word “concessions” here may not be appropriate at all. Yielding what you do not have is, of course, strong! Purely Japanese invention. Like, we give you, so be it, we give Iturup, and you "return" all the other territorial objects of the South Kuriles to us ...
However, if it was to some extent amused by the Russians, then in Japan such information caused quite different moods. The secretary of the Japanese cabinet, Yoshihido Suga, was forced to take over the case, representing the official position of the new (old) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who returned to a leading position later on 5 years (and they also say that there are personnel problems in Russia at the highest levels of power). So this Mr. Suga said that former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was misunderstood. It turns out that he (Mori) didn’t even intend to somehow divide the Southern Kuriles, but simply expressed his version as one of the possible proposals and assumptions. But the position of the Japanese government on the issue of the islands of the South Kuril ridge remains unchanged: that is, “give us all the 4 objects (Habomai, Kunashir, Iturup and Shikotan). At the same time, the Japanese government had already reminded the hundred millionth time of the treatise of the sample 1855 of the year, according to which the four islands are recognized as Japanese. It seems like they confess ... And again, for one hundred millionth time, representatives of the Japanese cabinet stubbornly forget that 1855 did not have a year yesterday, or even last week, and that Japan suffered a defeat in 1945 in World War II, signing an act of surrender with all consequent territorial consequences for Tokyo. And among these territorial consequences is the fact that the Southern Kuriles are now Russian lands without any reservations and references to treatises, pacts and petitions of memorable times.
Well, does one have to be surprised at the new statements from the Japanese government that someone has to give back to Japan again, give back, donate, give up? Of course, it is not necessary, because Japan is a specific state. So specific that it is one of the few countries in the world that uses doubtful chants as national anthems. For Japan, this is the song “Kimi gyo”, under which the troops of the militarist state seized foreign territories during the Second World War. After this musical work was approved as the official anthem of the country in 1999, many educational workers abandoned the performance of the hymn in schools, after which they were even forced to quit their jobs, giving them “more loyal” and “less memorable” .
But here it is also a strange thing: the anthem of the Second World War in Japan is restored and thus makes you remember the “greatness of the Japanese empire” and its triumphant marches across East Asia in the first half of 40, but about the defeat in this war and the loss of Kuril Islands, Tokyo stubbornly forgets. It seems that there can not do without reminders ...
However, Japan decided, apparently, to speak from a very tough position. Not for this reason, for the first time in more than 10 years, the Land of the Rising Sun decided to increase its military budget, by no less than a billion, by 1,15. Recall that today Japan’s military financial expenditures amount to about 53 billion dollars. And despite the fact that there is a well-known article of the Japanese constitution with the number 9 from 1947 of the year, in which it is written in black and white that Japan cannot have its own army, but can only have “self-defense forces”. Forgive me, not frail self-defense at the cost of more than $ 54 billion. If this is the financing of self-defense forces, then what kind of funding will there be, if Japan suddenly reconsiders its constitution and decides to rebuild the army? ..
By the way, the words about the necessity of abolishing the 9 article were also made by Shinzo Abe when he was once again torn to the premiership. In addition, Abe stubbornly argued that he was able to solve existing territorial issues (obviously, with China and Russia). Based on such pre-election rhetoric of Mr. Abe, it can be assumed that he was put on the old post, proceeding from the aggravated situation in terms of the disputed territories (mainly regarding Senkaku). And since Abe hinted so transparently that he was ready to speak from a position of strength, the Japanese parliamentarians were inspired by these words and gave Shinzo a second chance.
In general, once again in Japan, the rhetoric of the right sense, to which we recently had time to get used, sounds. Now it is worthwhile to wish the Russian government to develop a strong immunity to the Japanese territorial claims and, if possible, to find an alternative reason for retaliatory claims against Tokyo itself. And you can even organize a lot of such claims. For example, the payment of multi-billion dollar reparations with the wording “for the misuse of the resources of Sakhalin Island from 1905 to 1945 and the occupation of the northern part of Sakhalin from 1925 to 1945 years”. So let them comb ...
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