{"id":12625,"date":"2015-09-26T07:21:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T12:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12625"},"modified":"2015-09-26T07:21:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T12:21:36","slug":"abe-reaches-his-militarist-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12625","title":{"rendered":"Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"art-postheader\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=40305\" rel=\"bookmark\">Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Japan\u2019s House of Councilors Briefly Transforms into Rada Outpost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pictures such as those below used to primarily reach us from Ukraine\u2019s Rada, back before Poroshenko\u2019s \u201clustration law\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>Last week we received similar imagery from the upper house of Japan\u2019s Diet, a.k.a. the House of Councilors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2015\/09\/qpv5e6d6.jpg\" alt=\"qpv5e6d6\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/>A brawl breaks out in the usually quite reserved upper house of Japan\u2019s Diet<br \/>\nPhoto credit: Toru Hanai \/ Reuters<\/p>\n<p>A few close-ups:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2015\/09\/jcype7ll.jpg\" alt=\"jcype7ll\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/>Alain Delonakawa dishes out an an uppercut<br \/>\nPhoto credit: Yuya Shino \/ Reuters<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2015\/09\/9ucf15jb.jpg\" alt=\"9ucf15jb\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/>Take that you bastard! Lawmakers are piling on in scrum-fashion<br \/>\nPhoto credit: Yuya Shino \/ Reuters<\/p>\n<p>So what has happened? Why are Japan\u2019s notoriously consensus-prone and bushido-inhibited lawmakers suddenly trading fisticuffs and one presumes, matching verbal insults?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dulce et Decorum est pro Patria Mori?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As our long-time readers know, we have posted a portrait of Japan\u2019s nationalist-socialist prime minister Shinzo Abe a while back, entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=23572\">Shinzo Abe\u2019s True Agenda<\/a>\u201d. In brief: \u201cfixing\u201d Japan\u2019s 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\u2019s war cabinet during WW2 and became prime minister in the late 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal Japan\u2019s House of Councilors Briefly Transforms into Rada Outpost Pictures such as those below used to primarily reach us from Ukraine\u2019s Rada, back before Poroshenko\u2019s \u201clustration law\u201d banned about four million Ukrainian citizens from the political process forever. In Ukraine, brawls regularly broke out between Western Ukrainian nationalists and representatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1255,5728,452,9265,524,6170,2189],"class_list":["post-12625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-abe","tag-acting-man","tag-japan","tag-japanese-diet","tag-militarism","tag-pater-tenebrarum","tag-shinzo-abe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12626,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions\/12626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}