LOL, the scope of US army deployed on Japan doesn't depend on the Japan's economy. It depends on the strategic needs of US. If necessary, US will tighten the treaty of mutual cooperation and security, and make Japan pay it.
LOL, maybe not, maybe, who knows. Most probably not.
Depends on threat perception(s).
LOL, the scope of US army deployed on Japan doesn't depend on the Japan's economy. It depends on the strategic needs of US. If necessary, US will tighten the treaty of mutual cooperation and security, and make Japan pay it.
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Oppositions unite to block security bill vote
The leaders of six opposition parties agreed at their meeting on Friday to cooperate to block the ruling coalition from unilaterally putting a set of government-sponsored security bills to a vote at the House of Councillors.
The unity among the opposition parties comes as the ruling pair of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito is poised to have the security-related bills enacted during the week from Sept. 14.
“We have to do whatever it takes to block the passage of the security bills,” Katsuya Okada, leader of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan, said at the meeting.
The security bills, designed to expand the Self-Defense Forces’ possible roles overseas and allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense, are now under deliberation in the upper house after clearing the House of Representatives in July.
The opposition leaders are set to meet again late next week to discuss details about their cooperation and the DPJ’s planned no-confidence motion against the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
“The Cabinet would deserve censure if a vote on the unconstitutional bills is forced in the upper house,” Japan Innovation Party leader Yorihisa Matsuno said, signaling the party’s support for the envisaged motion.
Friday’s meeting was also joined by the leaders of the Japanese Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party, the People’s Life Party and the Assembly to Energize Japan.
The meeting was called by Okada and Matsuno, who have recently agreed to strengthen ties between their parties, including looking at a possible merger.
“There is no doubt that the more of us get together, the stronger we will be,” Okada told reporters after the meeting
Reference: JIJI PRESS