Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal
Japan’s House of Councilors Briefly Transforms into Rada Outpost
Pictures such as those below used to primarily reach us from Ukraine’s Rada, back before Poroshenko’s “lustration law” banned about four million Ukrainian citizens from the political process forever. In Ukraine, brawls regularly broke out between Western Ukrainian nationalists and representatives of Eastern Ukrainian ethnic Russians.
Last week we received similar imagery from the upper house of Japan’s Diet, a.k.a. the House of Councilors.
A brawl breaks out in the usually quite reserved upper house of Japan’s Diet
Photo credit: Toru Hanai / Reuters
A few close-ups:
Alain Delonakawa dishes out an an uppercut
Photo credit: Yuya Shino / Reuters
Take that you bastard! Lawmakers are piling on in scrum-fashion
Photo credit: Yuya Shino / Reuters
So what has happened? Why are Japan’s notoriously consensus-prone and bushido-inhibited lawmakers suddenly trading fisticuffs and one presumes, matching verbal insults?
Dulce et Decorum est pro Patria Mori?
As our long-time readers know, we have posted a portrait of Japan’s nationalist-socialist prime minister Shinzo Abe a while back, entitled “Shinzo Abe’s True Agenda”. In brief: “fixing” Japan’s economy with even more inflation and deficit spending is only a side-show for Abe. He is convinced that he has a quasi-divine mission to bring Japan back to its glorious militaristic past. In this, he appears to be influenced by the philosophy of his grandfather Nobusuke Kichi, who actually served as a minister in Japan’s war cabinet during WW2 and became prime minister in the late 1950s.
