The assassination of Abe and the curse of leaving Asia and entering Europe The end result of "opening the country to expel foreigners" ③

In 1873 (Meiji 6), Hide Wada, who became an apprentice at the government-run Tomioka Silk Mill in Gunma Prefecture, wrote in his "Tomioka Diary" that the appearance of the French high-ranking official Brunat and his wife , who appeared in full dress at a ceremony, was " dazzlingly beautiful." For the Japanese at that time, not only was the highly advanced civilization a great thing, but the "breathtaking" appearance and behavior of the upper classes of Western Europe must have been long- reported by Wada and other former apprentices who later went on to become leaders of silk mills all over the country. Since then, people have longed for foreign travel and imported goods, and " foreign countries" meant Europe and America . Just half a century ago, the destinations of the first overseas travel boom after the war were testament to this . Now we are at a time when we must overcome the curse of "leaving Asia and going to Europe" and become more strongly aware of our identity as "Asian Japan."

■ Embarrassing "100% with the U.S."

The sentiment of "Western worship" and "Dropping out of Asia and joining Europe" that is deeply etched in the hearts of Japanese people was condensed into the proud words of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who returned from the G7 summit (US, UK, France, Germany, Italy , Canada, Japan), when he declared, "Japan shines at the center of the world." However, this was also filled with an anachronistic nostalgia for "Japan being a world first class country on a par with Europe and the US," which dates back to the prewar Versailles system. Behind these words, one could see a complex of feelings that could not be wiped away , including the humiliation and inferiority complex that accompanied the unprecedented defeat in which Japan was completely destroyed , killed , and left almost naked by the US , and at the same time, the pride of the postwar high economic growth that was considered a miracle from the perspective of restorationist nationalism.

Shinzo Abe (1956-2022) , who served as Prime Minister for the longest period in history, eight years and eight months, and was assassinated shortly after stepping down, repeatedly used excessively pro-American rhetoric, saying that he was "100% with the United States." This excessive fawning was an attempt to hide his underlying feelings. In reality, he was strongly committed to denying the Tokyo Trials, rejecting the Japanese Constitution, visiting Yasukuni Shrine, and honoring the war dead, and he had deep ties with Russia's Putin, continuing to irritate the feelings of the US establishment. In other words, it was easy to see that his underlying feelings were intensely anti-American.

However, this "anti-American sentiment" is hostility toward the globalist Americans who were trying to control the Asia- Pacific and China, with Wall Street at its core, which led Japan into war with the United States, and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), as well as the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) as its base after the 1929 Kyoto Conference (photo), in which the Rockefeller Foundation began donating and Rockefeller III first participated. Isn't this why Abe and Putin were able to get along with the next US president Trump, who has declared that he will dismantle the Deep State (DS) and destroy the globalists? If Trump reveals even a part of the truth about Abe's assassination after his second term in office, the old Japan-US relationship will be reversed. The world will have no choice but to pay attention to the succession of the Trump regime.

What is the death of Shinzo Abe?

Just 32 years after Wada Hide started working in Tomioka, the name of Japan, a small Asian country that had "victorious victory over the great power Russia," reverberated even in the corners of Western Europe. "The Russo-Japanese War was the first time that ordinary Germans learned of Japan." A German man, then 78 years old, told me this in 1980. Having experienced two world wars, ordinary Germans overwhelmingly hated Russia at heart, so they had special feelings for Japan, their ally in World War II. As I was walking down the street, someone approached me and said, "Kaiser Irohito is great," asking for a handshake. If Abe, as a Japanese resident of Japan, had had such an experience, he might have been so moved that he shouted, "Long live the Emperor! Long live the Empire of Japan!" on the spot.

Nearly half a century has passed since then. World War II veterans around the world, and citizens who can speak of their horrific experiences during the war, are almost all dead. Japanese conservative politicians such as Kakuei Tanaka, Masaharu Gotoda, Tsutomu Nonaka, and even Kiichi Miyazawa were concerned that "Japanese politics without those who experienced the war is precarious." It seems that the same was true of the US DS and globalists. If Abe's murder was not the sole act of Tetsuya Yamagami, but was some kind of organized involvement by US military special forces or US espionage agencies, then what would be the reason?

The answer would be this.

"Abe is a military admirer with no experience of war. He was influenced by his grandfather, a suspected Class A war criminal who played a central role in running Manchukuo and served as Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Tojo Cabinet during the war, and is a fanatical emperor worshiper who rejects the war of aggression against China, the US military occupation of Japan, and the Tokyo Trials. Moreover, he served as prime minister for nearly 10 years, shifting Japan to the right more than necessary and greatly expanding the base of rock-solid conservatives. We cannot allow Abe to live, even if we are to correct a Japan that has become excessively right-wing and too swayed by restorationism."

"They mobilized the neoconservatives, CSIS, and the CIA to educate Abe. They brought together the Unification Church , the League for Victory over Communism, the Association of Shinto Shrines, the pseudo-right-wing Japan Conference, and restorationist nationalists to carry Abe on their palanquin. They incited a crisis on the Senkaku Islands and Taiwan, heightened anti-China sentiment and the sense of threat from China among the Japanese people, and forced Japan to expand its military as much as possible. They made Japan a de facto member of NATO, turned the Self-Defense Forces into a global complementary force to the U.S. military, and almost achieved a system for containing China from the Indo-Pacific region, and even from Central Asia and the Islamic world."

"Of the many Abe-sponsored organizations, the most problematic is Sosei Nippon, which puts the denial of the postwar period, restorationism, and ultranationalism at the forefront. Abe became chairman in 2008, succeeding Nakagawa Shoichi, who died under suspicious circumstances. The organization's activities are said to be aimed at protecting traditions and culture, and reconsidering the weakened postwar system. At a training session held when the party was in the opposition before the launch of the second Abe administration, the group enthusiastically called it a "ceremony to pledge to revise the constitution," and made a succession of statements such as, "The LDP's draft constitutional amendment includes the adherence to popular sovereignty , respect for basic human rights , and pacifism , but these are imposed by GHQ and are the very essence of the postwar regime . If these are removed, it will not become a truly independent constitution," " Only Japan, which has worshipped the Imperial Family for 2,600 years, is qualified to aim to be a moral superpower," and "The most important thing for Japan is the Imperial Family and the national polity . "

" In 2014, the second Abe administration ignored and surpassed the current peace constitution by approving the exercise of collective self-defense. This marked the end of the role of the dangerous Abe group (the LDP Seiwa Kai). They had been waiting for an opportunity to get rid of them."

■ Modern Japan: Rise and Fall Every 30 Years

In today's world where people are expected to live for a hundred years, 30 years is not a long time in a person's life. Five major events have occurred about every 30 years over the 150 years from 1867 to 2024: the Meiji Restoration, the Russo-Japanese War and Japan's entry into the top five major powers, Japan's defeat by the United States, Japan's rapid economic growth and bubble economy, and the Lost Thirty Years. Why did such dizzying ups and downs occur? Moreover, the "Lost Thirty Years" will continue for "40" and "50" years, and the gap with Asian countries and regions such as Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, which have ranked high in per capita GDP during that time, will widen, and Japan will likely lag behind China, the "leader of Asia," in every aspect .

Is there a way out for Japan, which is derided as a "declining developing country"? Looking at these 150 years, we can see the following trends: 1) Reliance on Britain from the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration until the Russo-Japanese War; 2) From the Russo-Japanese War and Japan's entry into the Top Five Powers until Japan's defeat against the US, Japan engaged in war after friction with the US; 3) After Japan's defeat, Japan experienced military subjugation to the US, which attempted to democratize Japan, and severe economic friction with the US; 4) The Lost 30 Years saw the US usurp Japan's national wealth, Japan's transformation into a military superpower, and the Self-Defense Forces becoming a complement to the US military. For these 150 years, except for the events surrounding the war against the US, which ended in self-destruction, Japan has basically existed under the control of the US and Britain. Therefore , the minimum we can say is that the only way to become independent is to give up being a pawn in the world strategy of the US, Britain, and Anglo-Saxons and to break free from that control . There is no way out, but there are naturally some Japanese people, including those in Nagatacho, who continue to grope in the dark.

In the midst of this search, Abe was murdered. Nagatacho was shaken, freezing the hearts of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers who had been "with the United States" since 1955. Their complete silence on the truth of the case made it seem like the crime was committed by defendant Tetsuya Yamagami, who was said to have committed the crime out of anger at Abe for his collusion with the former Unification Church, and froze the hearts of the three legal professions , namely judges, prosecutors, and lawyers . Even though it has been almost three years since the incident, the first hearing has been sabotaged, and even the lawmakers around Abe have not raised any objections to the abnormal situation in which Yamagami's claims have not been heard in person, and he has not even been questioned or admitted to the charges . On the contrary, the largest faction in the LDP, the Abe faction (Seiwa Kai), has been easily dismantled and disappeared due to the suspicion of slush funds. With Abe's death, Japan's judiciary, executive, legislative, and media are shrouded in a huge darkness, and there is even a premonition that the truth will be sealed in a "Pandora's box" by eliminating Yamagami.

■ Dismantling Pax Americana: The United Nations, Neocons, and Trump

The end of the Cold War in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 decisively rendered the United Nations, an organization of the victorious nations of World War II that adopted a charter pledging not to wage war, a dead letter in Japan, the country that lost the war . The Security Council, originally organized by the five major nations, did not function as a reflection of the Cold War structure of the United States, Britain, and France versus the Soviet Union and China, and in fact the UN's right of collective self-defense was never exercised. The "United Nations forces" during the Korean War were in name only, and in reality they were a multinational force led by the US military, fighting against North Korea and China, which were backed by the Soviet military.

In February 1992, one year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States created the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) (pictured above) . This was a secret Pentagon document that preceded and served as the basis for the new US strategic thinking (commonly known as the Bush Doctrine) that followed the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States . The doctrine was a flawed logic of survival of the fittest that rebelled against modern thinking, which called for the launch of "preemptive attacks in self-defense " when necessary against terrorists, who were the justification for the Iraq War, and "rogue nations" that threatened to spread weapons of mass destruction.

The 1992 DPG is a defense policy guideline as part of the US National Security Strategy for the post-Cold War era, and was compiled by a number of well-known neoconservatives, including then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. The document suggests that the US should prepare to prevent the emergence of rival superpowers in Western Europe, Asia, or the former Soviet Union, and that the ultimate goal is for the US to seize hegemony in Eurasia. For more details, see the article "US Neocons Manipulating Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and Japan Conference: Using Any Means to Maintain Hegemony" published on March 21, 2022.

The core problem with the DPG, the national defense guidelines , is that it states that " world order must be maintained by the United States, and the United States will act alone." In other words, it declares that "in the post-Cold War world, the rise of a superpower that rivals the United States will not be tolerated." Potential rivals include not only Russia and China, but also Japan and Germany . While using the offshore balancing strategy, the successive US administrations of Bush, Obama, and Biden have implemented globalism by deploying US troops, allied forces, and NATO on a global scale in line with the wishes of multinational giant capital and the deep state.

This was a declaration of sole American hegemony, completely rejecting attempts to build a collective security system such as the League of Nations, the Paris Pact, and the UN Charter since the Wilson administration, as well as the argument that "war is a crime." Globalization has been described as the borderless movement of market economies driven by multinational capital , the formation of a multipolar world order centered around the United Nations, nationalism through an ultra-idealistic world federal organization, and the sublimation of the nation-state. The globalism of the American neoconservatives dramatically widens social and national disparities not only in the United States but also in countries around the world, and can be seen as a return to the division of the world into colonies by the imperialist powers from the late 19th century to the 20th century, with the domination of Eurasia in particular becoming their "unfulfilled dream."

During his first term, Trump appointed Henry Kissinger as his de facto special foreign policy adviser. According to a Washington source, Kissinger, a classical balance of power theorist based on the Vienna System, was impressed with Trump's theory on dismantling globalization, and remarked that "at times of change, strange people like Trump can appear and do great things."

The "anti-American sentiment" Abe mentioned above refers to US-led globalization, and if his resentment was directed at Wall Street, it is only natural that he would get along well with Trump and Putin . Japanese media reported on the Abe-Putin meeting solely on the issue of the Northern Territories, but perhaps the underlying issue was how to deal with the current situation in which the domination of US and UK globalization and the inseparable Japan-US Security Treaty are crucially impeding Japan-Russia relations. The accumulation of nearly 30 meetings between the two suggests this.

[Photo] Russian President Putin shakes hands with former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and embraces him as Shinzo Abe looks on with a big smile, December 16, 2016, in Nagato City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

 

 

 

 

 

Upon hearing the news of Abe's assassination, Trump called Akie Abe and continued to contact her almost regularly afterwards, which is presumably because Trump also had an intuition that "the deep state and globalists must be involved in the assassination of Shinzo ." To top it off, Trump was also nearly assassinated during the election campaign in July 2024.

It should be seen that there must have been a very good reason why Trump took the time to invite Akie Abe to his Florida villa, even though he was busy with the transition of power in December. This issue was covered in detail in articles related to Akie Abe's visit to Florida, such as " Trump tells Abe about the background to the assassination of the former prime minister? Why did he do it before taking office?" on December 16, 2024 .

I would like to pay attention to Trump's diplomacy in his second term, especially with regard to Russia and the expansion of BRICS. The former is the outcome of the Eurasian domination and Ukraine war that successive US neocon administrations have aimed for, while the latter is the outcome of Pax Americana, which has the IMF, World Bank, and US military at its core. If the Trump administration shows a conciliatory attitude toward the expanding BRICS, which are mainly made up of former colonial countries and the Global South, the world's composition will change decisively and signs of the formation of a new world order will grow. The "Drop in Asia, step into Europe" philosophy that has held Japan in a spell for over 150 years will be brought to an end.

Note : This article is a continuation of "Turning our eyes to the non-American and non-European world and seeking freedom from the yoke of defeat"　published on December 6, 2024 .