Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Resign Due to Health Reasons

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3. I'm not sanguine about the future prospects

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One needs to keep in mind that the CIA installed LDP is led by ultra-conservative elites who gained their family fortunes from Japan's invasion and occupation of virtually the entirety of East Asia. Abe is very much a part of that tradition. Abe's grandfather and the other fascists employed by the US in the cold war against Russia and then China established the Japan we know today. The ugly part is washed away in the English language media because Japan dutifully serves a geopolitical role profitable to the US.

The re-militarization of Japan to be used as a proxy force by the United States, and the continued use of Japan as the springboard for potential wars against North Korea and China is a double edged sword. Disputes over islands in the East Asian littoral and South China Sea are blessed with the label "freedom of navigation" but in reality disguise the imperial legacy of the US and Japan in the late 19th and 20th Centuries which resulted in WW II, when the two erstwhile colonial partners had a falling out.

People who imagine some incompatibility between Trump and Abe are clearly misled by the mainstream media. In spite of immense cultural differences, the two men couldn't be more alike. Abe is a right wing racist who wishes to make Japan "great again."

Will we get a Taro Aso or a new generation of leadership who truly reject the Japanese imperial legacy?

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