Author: Yoshiaki Yano

Japanese　https://i-rich.org/?p=2053

Yano Yoshiaki
Senior Researcher, International Research Institute of Controversial Histories

During the U.S.-Japan top meeting held in April this year, the U.S.-Japan relationship as partners was emphasized, particularly the collaboration between Japan’s Self Defense Forces and the United States Armed Forces.

However, in considering what significance the US-Japan alliance bears, we must correctly grasp on what kind of supportive powers the current Democratic Party depends and what the Party intends to do. Upon such consideration, Japan should cope with the situation in a cool manner.

Condemnable corruption and degradation of the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party

On May 31 this year, Mike Davis, a lawyer close to former President Donald Trump, harshly condemned the corrupt and degraded Democratic Party as follows:

1. The Democrats sent out pro-Democrat justices, prosecutors and lawyers to initiate lawsuits against the former President Trump, weaponizing the power of the judiciary.
2. The former Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) Anthony Fauci gave funds to the virus research center in Wuhan, China, had them carry out gain of function research and as consequence, tens of millions of people died from the virus.
3. The suspicion raised against the former President Trump taking classified papers home was a conspiratory plot involving the FBI and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), intending to trap the former President.
4. The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) covered up the scandal involving President Biden’s son Hunter Biden by denying the authenticity of his PC, which was a vital proof of his wrongdoing.
5. Clinton Foundation receives illegal money from abroad and Hillary Clinton, former Democratic Presidential candidate, concealed the evidence.

(https://www.article3project.org/ as of July 3, 2024)

The above accusations were made by those close to Trump and may be partially exaggerated or biased, but all of them are basically the same as what has been repeatedly posted on the social networks within the United States by Republicans and Trump supporters. Witnesses confirming the truth and more accusers come along, one after another. There are witnesses and accusers on the Biden side, too. And it looks like the mudslinging on both sides intensifies, as the Presidential election nears. However, this is far above the level of fussing over scandals.

Former President Trump is mired in numerous lawsuits. Regarding the jury’s verdict reached on May 30 at the New York District Court stating that Trump wrongly wrote down the hush money he had paid to the woman who accused him as lawyer fees, it was merely a minor crime, not a felony and the statute of limitations for the case has already expired. However, the New York District Court prosecuted it as a felony committed with a certain intention, extending the statute of limitations, and brought the case to trial. Moreover, the jurors were chosen from among local New York State residents, about 90% of whom are supposed to be essentially Democratic Party supporters. Thus, the trial lacked impartiality and allegedly the Trump side is planning to appeal.

Regarding the issue of Trump’s taking classified documents home, it is within the powers allowed to the consecutive Presidents and the act itself cannot be said to be illegal. It is known that President Biden, while he was Vice-President, took out classified documents without authority and kept them at his private residence for long time.

On the other hand, the corruption and degradation on the part of the Democratic Party and the Biden Administration are seriously grave. The corruption and degradation of Clinton Foundation and Fauci’s support for Wuhan’s gain of function research are also well-known stories. The suspicion that Hunter Biden managed to buy a gun by providing false statement on the federal application form that he was not a drug addict, was backed up by evidence on his own PC.

The trial of the case began on June 4, this year. In the middle of the election time, this case will have far greater impact on the Democratic Presidential candidate than Trump’s issues of hush money and mishandling of classified documents.

Why, then, is it that only Trump’s suspicions are widely reported while the Bidens’ (father and son) scandals are not?

It is true that Republican candidate Trump’s behavior leaves much to be desired, inviting many suspicions and lawsuits. On the other hand, however, the corruption and degradation of the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party are also well-known facts and what the above-mentioned lawyer Mike Davis alleged is fundamentally not false.

As the credibility of the minute details is yet to be examined, the suspicions involving the Bidens are far more serious and damaging to the national interest than Trump’s.

Then, why is it that the President Biden’s scandal is rarely reported among the major Western media, including Japan’s, while they report only Trump’s suspicions?

Every time the Presidential election is held, one prominent figure always emerges—the financial capitalist George Soros of Wall Street. He is known as the biggest donor to the Democratic Party, giving about $100 million to the party, and he has also influenced significantly consecutive Democratic Presidential candidates.

Those Wall Street international financial capitalists like Soros hold not only the financial business but also have under their financial control most of the huge conglomerates producing energy, food, IT, and many others. These huge conglomerates are mostly supporters of globalism and the Democratic Party because such policies, are very profitable, they ensure the free flow of capitals, manpower and information internationally, while getting rid of the national borders.

Particularly, in recent years, rapidly growing major IT companies called GAFA were all founded by Jewish people. Consequently, as the IT industry rapidly grows, international Jewish capitals are monopolizing more and more profits.

Therefore, the reason why the Western news media, including Japan’s, do not report the above-mentioned corruption and degradation of the Democratic Party and the Biden Administration is that more than 90% of the media are under control of the globalism and Jewish capitals in view of the capital power, information sources, advertising sponsors and ideology.

On top of that, over 90% of the professors at famous U.S. universities, especially in social sciences, are supporters of the Democratic Party. Young people taught by these professors become the elite in the society and there are more and more liberals in favor of the Democratic Party ubiquitously in politics, government offices, academic and financial worlds.

In fact, globalists behind the Biden Administration are those powers inheriting the ideology of the same pedigree of Communist ideology (Trotskyism) and aiming to control the masses by the global elite.

They gained huge profits by instigating the revolution, civil war and war in Ukraine and tried to realize the unipolar rule of the world. Victoria Nuland, who formerly served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs and acting Deputy Secretary of State, was the central figure within the State Department to promote the globalist policy. Nuland’s husband Robert Kagan is a neoconservative speaker and known as the number one scholar on Trotskyism in the United States.

Japan should hurry up in building independent national defense system

In the United States, there seems to be no end to corruption, degradation and failures among the elite. Instead of maintaining the partnership with the current globalist administration, Japan should endeavor to strengthen the relationship with the Republican Party and its candidate trying to inherit the spirit of the United States Constitution and reflecting the grass-rooted will of the people. If not, it is impossible to establish the true U.S.-Japan relationship leading to the stabilized global order and prosperity.

Rather, there may be even danger of Japan standing in front of another world war as a globalists’ pawn. In this sense, the unification of Japan’s Self Defense Forces and the United States Armed Forces under the globalist administration can never lead to Japan’ own security or the regional peace and security.

If the Republican candidate Trump, advocating America first should become President, Japan will be urged to quickly move toward the scheme of self-governed national security. In either case, Japan should lose no time to realize its independence as a state, particularly the scheme of independent national defense and security.  

International Research Institute for Controversial Histories

Senior researcher

Yoshiaki Yano

Japanese : https://i-rich.org/?p=1763

Conflicts in the Middle East are raging once again. The war between Hamas and Israel is escalating. The historical background and its misinterpretation by the Great Powers concerned have caused complicated consequences.

During the Islamic Ottoman dynasty, in the present-day Israel, Jews and Christians lived in peaceful harmony under the Islamic rule.

However, at the end of the 19th century, the Zionist movement started, and groups of Jews started entering Palestine to settle in “God’s promised land.” But the Ottoman Empire did not particularly regulate their settlement.

After World War I, as the Ottoman Empire was in the process of dissolving, the Middle East region was divided into areas under the rule of several Western Great Powers. The United Kingdom, one of the belligerent powers of the War, concluded the Hussein-McMahon agreement in 1915, while the war was still going on, and promised the independence of the region where Arabs resided in exchange for the cooperation of the Arabic States in the war against the Turkish Ottoman Empire.

On the other hand, in May 1916, the United Kingdom made a secret agreement with its allies France and Russia, regarding the control over the Ottoman Empire after the War.

Moreover, in November 1917, the British Government issued the Balfour Declaration, pledging its agreement and support for the establishment in Palestine of a “National Home” for the Jewish people.

This triple-tongued diplomacy on the part of the United Kingdom, which made pledges that contradicted one another, is said to have been the fundamental factor creating the present-day Palestinian issue.

However, the Arab State designated in the Hussein-McMahon agreement did not include Palestine and some say that the two agreements did not contradict each other.

The Balfour Declaration clearly safeguarded the rights of Palestine’s indigenous non-Jewish residents while establishing a “National Home” for the Jewish people in Palestine.

Based on the Balfour Declaration, in 1922, the League of Nations adopted the resolution of the British Mandate for Palestine. At that time, the residents in Palestine were mostly Arabs and even under the mandatory rule, in view of the right of people’s self-determination, Arabs’ sovereignty should have been respected.

However, as the Zionist movement rose further, more and more Jews came to buy land and settle in Palestine and the conflicts between the Arab Palestinian residents and the Jewish settlement and Jewish settlers became more frequent.

The confrontation between the two peoples under the mandate turned into conflicts between States after the United Nations’ resolution to divide Palestine after World War II.

In the background of this resolution lay the massacre of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II. Before and during the War, many Jewish refugees headed for Palestine and the movement to support the establishment of a state for homeless Jews in Palestine became widespread among the Allied Nations.

Decisively important was the lobbying by Jewish American residents in the Congress of the United States of America, the most powerful victor of the War. In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution recommending the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the partition of Palestine to create two independent Arab and Jewish states, and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem.

It turned out that the United Nations resolution allowed a different people to establish a respective new State in another’s land, almost equivalent to allowing invaders to conquer the land, which is against international law. This is exactly what became the root of the current conflicts in the Middle East.

In fact, on the next day after the State of Israel was proclaimed in 1948, the surrounding Arab States, not recognizing the Israeli independence, started military attacks against Israel. This was the first Middle East War. Israel won the war and after ceasefire through the United Nations mediation consolidated its status as an independent State and came to occupy a larger portion of the land than initially allocated in the Partition Resolution by the United Nations.

While Israel occupied the Palestinian region, more than 700,000 Palestinian people became refugees, which created the current Palestinian refugee issue.

After that, Middle East Wars between Israel and the surrounding Arab States took place three more times, and each time Israel won, expanding its territory further.

On the part of Palestine, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed in 1964, asserting its goal of Palestinian self-determination, but in the Lebanese civil war in 1982, the PLO was ousted from Lebanon and its influence gradually diminished. In 1988, after deciding to establish a Palestinian State in the West Bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip, co-existing with Israel, the PLO adopted the Palestine Declaration of Independence.

In 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed, according to which the Government of Israel and the PLO recognized each other and an interim Palestine autonomy in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank was established. The PLO promised to abandon its armed struggle, but the newly established Hamas, acting as a destroyer of peace, launched suicidal terrorist bombings, aggravating the domestic conflicts with the interim government.

Hamas won the Palestine legislative election in 2006 and after the Battle for Gaza in 2007 became the governing authority in the Gaza Strip. Hamas is an organization that follows the principles of Sunni Islamic fundamentalism and Palestinian nationalism.

During the Syrian civil war, attempting to oust the Asad Government, Hamas fought against Hizballah, supported by the United States and Israel. Hizballah is a Shia Islam militia, based in southern Lebanon, supported by Iran.

In recent years, however, Hamas has been concentrating on armed struggle against Israel, promoting the strategic cooperation with Hizballah, and receiving support in terms of weapons and training.

The current conflict with Israel, triggered by the unexpected attack by Hamas, opened a new battle front in connection with the ongoing war in Ukraine, which benefits strategically Russia and China, although they are not directly involved in the conflict. Some commentators even think that support for Hamas came from Russia and China.

Another assumption based on the conflict is that Israel and the United States may launch a preemptive strike against Iran, which is reportedly close to obtaining enriched uranium that could be used to build a nuclear weapon.

On the other hand, the Biden Administration released $ 6 billon-worth of the frozen Iranian assets. It cannot be denied that part of that money went to Hamas through Hizballah.

It is not clear, either, why the Biden Administration released as much as $ 6 billion of frozen Iranian assets, or whether weapons left deserted in Afghanistan or part of the weapons to be sent to Ukraine found its way into the hands of Hamas.

Some speculate that since Russia seems to be winning in the Ukraine War despite the past expectations, the U.S. Jewish international financial capital is trying to make profit by waging a new war in the Middle East.

Thus, the historical background leading to the outbreak of the war in the Middle East this time and the misunderstanding by the Superpowers of the realities inside and outside the region are so complicated that it is not at all a simple question of which one is ally or foe or which one is right or wrong.

It is urgent for each country to correctly analyze the situation and make the utmost effort to secure its national interest and particularly national security, without being swallowed up in the violent current of these bizarre and complicated international circumstances.

The region surrounding Japan is as militarily tense as Ukraine and the Middle East. Japan must have its own independent national security policy and carry out informational activities.

Particularly, Japan depends on the Middle East for more than 90% of its crude oil import. If the safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz should be threatened, Japan would be directly hit. Japan has 240 days’ oil stockpile maintained by the state and private companies. If the conflict should linger on, the Japanese economy would be hard hit. Japan should strengthen its energy security and particularly, restart its nuclear power facilities soon enough.

The conflict may suddenly spread and it is urgent to secure the safety of the Japanese residents and companies in the region and to have them safely and promptly return home to Japan. Reexamining the five principles to participate in the U.N. Peace Keeping Operations (PKO), the Japan Self Defense Forces should be authorized to use the necessary weapons in carrying out their missions in the conflict regions.

The biggest threat is China’s advance to the Senkaku Islands and Taiwan, using the void of power in the Northeast Asia. The state control of the Chinese economy tightens further and the dictatorship of Xi Jinping is further consolidated after consecutive ousting of high government officials and it appears that there are signs of progressing preparations for war, including efforts to enhance the nuclear forces and stockpile more nuclear weapons. Japan should speedily enhance its defense force, prepare for a possible attack on the Senkaku Islands and strengthen its own nuclear deterrent power.

--The nuclear power balance tilting against the United States and the path to securing a reliable nuclear deterrent --

【日本語版】https://i-rich.org/?p=803

Yano Yoshiaki

Senior researcher

International Research Institute for Controversial Histories (iRICH)

June 30, 2022

As we have seen during the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is getting more and more difficult to secure completely the international order, maintained through the U.S. nuclear deterrent power, against attempts to change the status quo.

Guarantee of “nuclear umbrella” for Ukraine was not fulfilled

Ukraine used to own approximately 1,400 nuclear warheads and ranked the third “nuclear power” after Russia and the United States at the time when it became independent from the Soviet Union. However, in 1994, the United States, Britain and Russia, fearing nuclear proliferation from Ukraine, made Ukraine agree to the plan to transfer all its nuclear warheads to Russia on the condition that Ukraine be provided security.

However, after the virtual annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, the United States and Britain did not provide protection under their nuclear umbrella for Ukraine’s security as it had been promised. When Ukraine was invaded and threatened with a possible nuclear attack by a nuclear power country, the nuclear umbrella assurance the United States had guaranteed to Ukraine did not work effectively.

As if they anticipated the failure of the “nuclear umbrella” security, China, Russia and the DPRK (North Korea) are strengthening their show of force and nuclear intimidation around Japan.

It is time for us to reexamine the policy of total dependence on the United States with respect to nuclear deterrent, reevaluate the need to keep the Three Non-Nuclear Principles and to seriously discuss the necessity and possibility for Japan to possess its own nuclear deterrent power.

Deterrent power has several levels. The highest level is nuclear weapons and below it come biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction. Under that level, there are conventional, regular weapons. Below weapons level, there are non-military tools, like diplomacy, economics, scientific technology, intelligence and other means of deterrence.

Deterrent will collapse if at any level, one’s power is weaker than that of the opponent. Even if a conflict occurs and escalates, the possession of a more powerful force at a higher level, makes it possible to prevent the conflict from escalating further.

Namely, if a country owns its own nuclear force, theoretically, it can keep the conflict from escalating any further or refuse to accept the plan to end the conflict as the other side wishes, by employing nuclear intimidation at the time when both sides start using regular weapons and the other side is doing better.

The nominal “Three Non-Nuclear Principles” and the lost U.S. “Nuclear Umbrella” reliance

Following the Sato Cabinet decision on October 9, 1972, Japan has been advocating for the “Three Non-Nuclear Principles.” However, the United States itself has kept an ambiguous stance regarding these principles. The U.S. neither denies nor affirms whether the U.S. nuclear submarines carry nuclear weapons. Japanese officials cannot go aboard U.S. submarines passing through the Japanese territorial waters and verify if the submarines carry nuclear weapons or not. This means that the principle of not allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into the country is not enforced.

In the terms of real politics, Japan has been thoroughly dependent on the United States when it comes to nuclear deterrence. The U.S. assurance that it would provide a nuclear umbrella (Extended nuclear deterrence) is the major reason why Japan does not intend to possess its own nuclear capability.

However, the military nuclear power balance between the United States, China and Russia has already been tilting against the United States. The war in Ukraine further consolidated the ties between Russia and China. It is highly probable that in terms of nuclear strategy, Russia and China secretly agreed to cooperate. A U.S. expert estimates that in the field of strategic nuclear force, if China and Russia join hands and regard the United States as their common enemy, the nuclear power balance will be 2 to 1 in favor of Russia and China.

Regarding Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF), China, without being restricted by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, has unilaterally augmented INF and obtained an advantage in the Indo-Pacific region. As of the short-range nuclear forces, Russia considers them very important in defending its long border line, and it is estimated that Russia has more than 1,800 of them, four to five times as many as the U. S. does.

It is not known how many nuclear forces China owns, but at each level, clearly, China and Russia excel the United States in the number of forces. Despite President Biden’s statement during his visit to Japan and on other occasions, in realistic comparison of forces, it seems evident that the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella has lost its reliability.

If so, Japan has only two options left. To acquire nuclear deterrent power at least as strong as that of Britain and France or to try to augment its conventional armament without the possession of nuclear weapons.

High probability of Japan’s possessing nuclear forces and the U.S. change of policy to acquiesce that Japan and South Korea may possess nuclear arms on their own

American and Japanese experts agree that Japan is potentially capable of possessing nuclear arms on its own. Japan could produce nuclear bombs within several days and owns nuclear fission materials that can be used as fuel for nuclear bombs.

Highly sophisticated technology is not needed and it does not cost much money to design and produce a nuclear bomb. Japan can develop nuclear warheads using super computers without conducting a nuclear test.

Japan owns solid-fueled rockets for civilian use, which can be converted to inter-continental ballistic missiles. Japan will be able to develop nuclear submarines, which can carry submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) and deploy them within five years. Japan has the ability to develop and manufacture the re-entry part to be used in the ballistic head. This technology, as well as the guidance technology, has been tested successfully by “Hayabusa,” the robotic spacecraft, when exploring the tiny asteroid Itokawa, and others.

The United States has not been successful in deterring North Korea from developing nuclear missiles. In March 2022, North Korea launched successfully an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) named Mars 17, with a range capable of reaching the entire U.S. territory. In addition, North Korea is developing hypersonic weapons which cannot be counterattacked by the current missile defense system and may carry out its seventh nuclear testing.

Against such threat posed by the North Korean nuclear attack capability, the United States has shifted its policy toward allowing the South Korean possession of nuclear arms.

In 2017, President Trump admitted that the U.S. would lift the restraint on South Korea to build nuclear submarines, Korean ballistic missiles’ ranges and weights of ballistic heads. Following this, South Korea introduced a plan to build a nuclear submarine and in September 2021, launched successfully an SLBM from under the water.

The U.S. policy change to allowing the South Korean possession of SLBMs in the future will be probably applied also to Japan. To possess SLBMs means loading of nuclear warheads, possession of nuclear arms and nuclear proliferation, which the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) prohibits. However, allowing Japan’s possession of nuclear forces will be a rational strategy, considering the inferior U.S. position in terms of present and future nuclear strategic balance against China and Russia.

That is because if the U.S. would not permit Japan’s possession of its own nuclear forces, Japan may succumb to the nuclear intimidation on the part of China and Russia. Regular weapons would hardly enable Japan to cope with the several million-fold destructive power of the nuclear weapons. If Japan should succumb, it would become a subordinate to China and be obliged to serve as a place for China’s military bases. Then, the United States would be destined to lose its hegemony over the Western Pacific.

Without allowing Japan’s possession of nuclear forces, if the U.S. tries to avoid Japan’s capitulation to the nuclear intimidation by China and Russia, the United States would be obliged to send its large-scale ground forces to Japan and fight against the Chinese military to defend Japan.

After all, the only reasonable choice for the U.S. would be to let Japan possess SLBMs carried aboard nuclear submarines with the highest survivability as at least possible nuclear deterrent and means of transportation, in order to protect the U.S. national interest on the verge of life or death, minimizing the risk.

The change in the Japanese people’s awareness and the most reliable way for Japan to obtain its own nuclear forces

With looming crises in the Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula, and facing the worsening situation of collaboration among China, North Korea and Russia, the hitherto-held allergy against nuclear forces by the Japanese people and the anti-nuclear sentiment would no longer sound persuasive. Voices calling for effective deterrent measures and military forces capable of fighting against invasions will become louder, especially among the young generations within Japan.

If Japan’s domestic public opinion changes, possession of its own nuclear forces will be discussed as a realistic political matter. Once it is politically decided, Japan will be able to produce within several weeks reliable nuclear weapons without conducting nuclear testing and acquire the most reliable deterrent—possession of nuclear forces of its own.