Japan imposes sanctions against Russia under US pressure — Tokyo Governor

[senheiser]

ITAR-TASS: World - Japan imposes sanctions against Russia under US pressure — Tokyo Governor September 04, 18:58 UTC+4
“We have problems related to China, North and South Korea. That is why we need to rely on the US military potential,” he says

TOMSK, September 04. /ITAR-TASS/. Japan has imposed sanctions against Russia under pressure from the United States, Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe told journalists in Tomsk, which is hosting the summit of the heads of Asian cities, on Thursday.


The governor said Japan was very dependent on the US in security issues.

“We have problems related to China, North and South Korea. That is why we need to rely on the US military potential,” Yoichi Masuzoe said, adding he wanted the Russians to understand what stood behind Japan’s decision to impose sanctions against Russia.

The governor also pledged to exert maximum efforts to improve bilateral relations between Russia and Japan.




On August 5, the Japanese Foreign Ministry published the names of 40 individuals and two organizations that fell under the Japan government-approved sanctions against Russia. The sanctions list includes Crimean officials, representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics; as well as two Crimean companies - Chernomorneftegaz and the Feodosiya oil base. Japan has also banned all imports of goods produced in Crimea.


Japan imposed the first round of sanctions against Russia on March 18, the day when Crimea officially reunited with Russia. It suspended consultations with Russia on possible facilitation of the visa regime and postponed the conclusion of three treaties with Russia - on investment cooperation, cooperation in space exploration and prevention of dangerous military activity.

In addition to that, Japan temporarily stopped issuing entry visas to 23 representatives of Russian official bodies and other persons on July 24. Their list, however, has not been published.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

With all the hard work that Japan has done to Russia is now in vain.

 

[Sam Manekshaw]

With all the hard work that Japan has done to Russia is now in vain.

Not in vain...coz all this development(pressure from USA) going will impact future Japanese foreign and military policy when they get self-reliant in nation's defence ...I can sense that abe will get back Japanese on track and will set free japan from USA...It's a long term goal but that will happen for sure.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Not in vain...coz all this development(pressure from USA) going will impact future Japanese foreign and military policy when they get self-reliant in nation's defence ...I can sense that abe will get back Japanese on track and will set free japan from USA...It's a long term goal but that will happen for sure.

You are underestimating Uncle Sam's tight control on Japan.

The only way for Japan to break away from Uncle Sam is to defeat them, so I doubt it gonna happen.

 

[Aepsilons]

Don't worry seinny-san,

The bans we enacted will remain limited. Don't worry, Putin is still invited to Japan and he's still coming -- to talk about our energy plans.

Spasebo ! Das Vedanya !

 

[Sam Manekshaw]

You are underestimating Uncle Sam's tight control on Japan.

The only way for Japan to break away from Uncle Sam is to defeat them, so I doubt it gonna happen.

You have over-calculated the situation here....It's all about mentality of Japanese people....They have stood united and productive when their is call from their Nation( A thing which everyone should learn from Japanese)...Right now ppl don't think their is need to get ride of USA but when they realize it then it will happen in no time....Japanese r good with innovation and the nation who innovate is powerful enough to raise against all odds.
It's just the Hirshima and Nagasaki incident which is hunting them....but no fear last long.

 

[JSCh]

That would means one would be wise to take the feeling of the American into account when dealing with the Japanese?

 

[atatwolf]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. For Japan, China is a rotting corpse, and the smell is already spreading into all directions. To contain Chinese aggression, Japan has to ally with US and Russia at the same time. It is a complex relationship but Japan knows what they are doing. They will be independent power alongside Turkey.

 

[TaiShang]

Who said Japan can make independent foreign policy?

Japan’s Client State (Zokkoku) Problem

Gavan McCormack, 2013

Introduction - The Servile and the Autonomous

As Japan moved to conduct House of Representatives elections in December 2012, attention in Western media and academic circles turned, as it does from time to time, to the question of whether the country was in decline, or even in some sort of crisis. Already five years have passed since the Minister for Economic Policy declared to the National Diet that “in economic terms Japan is no longer a first-class country,” by which she meant that its GDP had shrunk below 10 per cent as a proportion of the world's for the first time in 24 years.

China and Korean peninsula in 6th century

For 1,350 years since then, Japan has carefully nurtured its distance and independence from incorporation in any Sinic world order, alternating between fear of being invaded, as was threatened but did not occur in the late 7th century but then did occur but fail (under the Mongols) in the 12th century, and failed attempts to supplant the Sinic order with one under its own hegemony in the 16th and 20th centuries (led by Hideyoshi in the first and the Imperial Japanese Army in the second). There is no historical model for an inter-state relationship of equality and mutual respect, and negotiation in that direction becomes so much the more difficult, for both sides, the more likely eventual Chinese superiority becomes. Needless to say, this meta-historical view, with its serious implications for constructions of Japanese identity, is not widely discussed in Japan, where China’s current and continuing rise tends to be seen simply as “threat.”

If the China relationship is therefore problematic, so too is the relationship with the United States, though it too is in ways different from common perception. As Japan went to the polls in December 2012, all major parties agreed on the need to confirm, reinforce, or deepen the relationship, while a minority, albeit an influential one, held it to be fundamentally flawed and in need of revision. Where Japan for 1,350 years resisted becoming a Chinese “client state,” many believe that in just over a half-century Japan has embraced precisely that role towards the United States. In this view, Japan’s servility as a US “client state” rests at the heart of Asia’s problems.

The clearest recent expression of this view is to be found in a book published in August 2012, entitled The Truth of Postwar [Japanese] History. Author Magosaki Ukeru is a former head of the Intelligence and Analysis Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who had also served as ambassador to Uzbekistan
and Iran and professor at the National Defense University.



Magosaki’s The Truth of Postwar [Japanese] History, Sogensha, 2012

Magosaki’s book confirms and reinforces what I had written in 2007, in Client State – Japan in the A
American Embrace.


President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro, July 2006

Post-Cold War

In the post-Cold War period, the Hosokawa Morihiro government made a brief attempt in 1993-4 to articulate an autonomous line. A report prepared at its request by Higuchi Kotaro of Asahi Beer noted the slow decline of US hegemonic power and recommended Japan adopt a more autonomous, multilateral, and UN-centred diplomacy. But it was quickly overwhelmed and abandoned following the return of LDP-led government and the US riposte in the form of the Joseph Nye report of 1995 that insisted that East Asian security depended on the “oxygen” of US military presence and the base system had to be preserved and reinforced.

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[Beidou2020]

Japanese are just slaves to the US. This is why I look down on Japs. China and Russia will get closer to counter Japan in the future. I'm very happy to see Japan weak and dying as China is becoming the dominant East Asian country.

Japan is just a mere American colony and a 20th century power.

Japan is the past, China is the future.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. For Japan, China is a rotting corpse, and the smell is already spreading into all directions. To contain Chinese aggression, Japan has to ally with US and Russia at the same time. It is a complex relationship but Japan knows what they are doing. They will be independent power alongside Turkey.

Damn I'm scared of Turkey. I hope they don't ruin my thanksgiving dinner by refusing to get fat. Don't like lean turkey.

 

[atatwolf]

Japan has the tech, Japan has the economy, Japan has geography and allies IMHO.

What does China have? Nothing IMHO. Economy is slowing down while 80% of the country is living off couple of bucks per day. Rapidly aging population. No allies in the region. Biting the hand that feeds them and biting the hand that buys cheap crap.

It is obvious Japan will be the victor on the long term. Probably China will start a war or it will quite buckle and split up in multiple smaller states. There is no way I see which China can save itself from this path. All production is leaving China. Chinese had their best time IMHO.

 

[TaiShang]

This post for the above troll only. Sorry for going off topic.

Looks like China-Japan trade will reach, if not surpass, the 2011 levels. No matter what, we are two nations facing up each other since eternity. Road bumps cannot derail the mutual development path both nations pursue.

More heartbreaks for the above troller:

"An estimated 1.27 million foreigners visited Japan last month (July, 2014) as tourists or businesspeople, a record for a single month, with the number of Chinese visitors increasing twofold year-on-year to 281,200, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. And the number of Chinese tourists to Japan in the first six months of the year increased to 1.01 million, a year-on-year growth of more than 88 percent.

The increase in the number of Chinese tourists to Japan started in September 2013, and has continued since. The current boom is in contrast to the drastic decline in tourist numbers at the height of the Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu Islands, especially during the 2012-13 travel seasons."

On topic, like @Nihonjin1051 says, I guess the two nations will sort out the differences to some extent when President Putin visits Japan.

 

[kolinsky]

You are underestimating Uncle Sam's tight control on Japan.

The only way for Japan to break away from Uncle Sam is to defeat them, so I doubt it gonna happen.

I think Japan has already found that USA is going down in next 20 years. Preparing for independence from today is very important. It takes 20 year even more to cover the missing departments in Japen's military industry.

The jap's weapon is not implemented to against China, because they do not suit the battlefield. The strategy direction should be the East.

 

[tonyget]

Japan has the tech, Japan has the economy, Japan has geography and allies IMHO.

What does China have? Nothing IMHO. Economy is slowing down while 80% of the country is living off couple of bucks per day. Rapidly aging population. No allies in the region. Biting the hand that feeds them and biting the hand that buys cheap crap.

It is obvious Japan will be the victor on the long term. Probably China will start a war or it will quite buckle and split up in multiple smaller states. There is no way I see which China can save itself from this path. All production is leaving China. Chinitowns had their best time IMHO.

Don't warry, we will extract very single drop of oil from XinJiang before we run out of money