Japan PM under fire over US base deal
Press TV – May 25, 2010
A protest against relocation of US base in Okinawa on Sunday
Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama faces fresh criticism after he made a decision to keep a controversial US airbase on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The latest attack on Yukio Hatoyama came from coalition partner Social Democrat Party (SDP) leader Mizuho Fukushima.
Hatoyama’s coalition partner criticized him for prioritizing negotiations with the US and failing to work out an agreement with his political partners, The Japan Times reported on Tuesday.
Earlier on Monday, Tokyo and Washington reached an agreement on moving Futenma base to the north side of Okinawa rather than off the island.
Fukushima slammed Hatoyama’s decision to allow the US base to be re-located inside Okinawa and went on to call for the immediate removal of the airbase from the island.
Earlier in December, Fukushima threatened to leave the ruling coalition over the airbase row.
Hatoyama had promised to remove the base off the island during his election campaign, which brought his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) to power in a sweeping victory.
The airbase has been under US command since after World War II. More than half of some 47,000 US troops in Japan are stationed in Okinawa. The issue has been the biggest challenge for Hatoyama’s government, with his approval rating dropping dramatically across the country over his failure to appease the islanders.
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No military occupied country is self-governing! Imperialism is, as imperialism does!
I remember German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stating before a large audience of anti-MX missile deployment activist, “we are an occupied country” – meaning the US was imposing its imperial will, and he was merely a stooge in all but name.
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has bowed to US imperial occupation, humiliating himself and those who voted for him.
But, this is a common fate of voters the world over. Had a binding referendum been held, PM Hatoyama would not have been in a position to betray the people of Okinawa and Japan.
The issue is strategic positioning for US military aggression against North Korea, as the final steppingstone to the conquest of China. Two top priorities of the US empire that is an open-secret as well as insane.
George H.W. Bush, while president stated that the ‘”United States is a European power and was there to stay!”‘
Perhaps that message was delivered by Secretary of State Hillery Clinton delivered the same imperial dictum to PM Hatoyama.: The US is an Asia-Pacific power and is in Japan to stay in perpetuity, for it has been 65 years since the US invasion after the unjustified use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which was in fact a political act of US state-terrorist aimed at our then ally, the USSR.
People can ONLY represent themselves by direct popular vote! Giving ones proxy to any party or politician is a negation of real responsibility in the first instance, and all the protest thereafter is relatively, irrelevant!
Pure Democracy is the sole solution to US imperialism! President Barak Obama differences with the Bushes, is only skin-deep, he too is an empty suit, a stooge, an actor reading the teleprompter, another war criminal pampered by the mass media and obsequious congress and antiwar movement.
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