APA articles, Reading/Commentary 2019-07 "Japan is Facing the Same Threats as 11 Years Ago" Unlisted Video

Alright so due to my stay at an APA Hotel in Japan, I became aware of the essayist Seiji Fuji whom also apparently is the CEO of the hotel chain. Figured I would record my reading the English, while also giving commentary.

A link used in the video: https://en.apa-appletown.com/2019/07/japan-is-facing-the-same-threats-as-11-years-ago/ . You can find the Japanese version, if it exists.

This took a long time due to many really horrible analyses presented. North Korea is not really much of a threat and, like, the train station incident in like 2004 happened hours after Kim Jong-Il left so it can't exactly be seen as an assassination attempt when it is more likely fertilizer (ammonium nitrate, "explosive material") was set off by live electrical wires that would be all over North Korea since they haven't repaired or maintained the railways which Japan built while they occupied Korea, which South Korea still complains about despite the benefits of Japanese colonization. Nuclear sharing is a stupid concept which is not based in reality: NATO has access to Americans declaring war through Article 5, yes, but the Americans will not share their nukes nor is it even easy to do so due to how nuclear weapons systems are designed; Japan has explicitly said "no introduction of nuclear weapons" so the nuclear POWERED aircraft carriers and nuclear POWERED submarines are not violations of this "non-introduction" since the nuclear-POWERED and nuclear-ARMED "nuclear ballistic missile submarines" like the pre-converted SSGN Ohio or the still SSBN USS Kentucky (SSBN Ohio class whereas it is not a conventional missile carrier like the SSGN Michigan which used to be an SSBN) have never visited Japan (USS Kentucky only recently visited South Korea in 2023 and probably went back to the eastern side of the Pacific Ocean since why be in Asia?). If the Japanese don't like their constitution, then they can always change it; your nation's "failure" to change it doesn't mean that America controlled you. As for the Hull Note, I fail to see how America provoked Japan to war with America: the Japanese planned to attack Pearl Harbor as of November 5th, 1941; the Hull Note was sent by November 26th, 1941; Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan on December 7th, 1941.

As such, like a lot of other stuff, the "national pride" element of recent Japanese politics is fine but you need to remember the distinction between "pride" as the sin and "pride" as "love of country". Like, for example, General Akashi working with Communists to overthrow the Russian imperial government which caused the Soviet Union... I fail to see how that was anything but evil, even if German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II thought the man was outstanding, I don't see anything that was truly impressive about helping Communists/Socialists. Would later help cause Mao to gain support and produce the CCP. Thanks, General Akashi.