If people do not have the slightest idea
that Japan is sliding into war even after reading a series of articles I have
introduced today, I can only say that such people are very insensitive. I wonder if such people will do anything
whatever it may be, for instance, wage war, as ordered by the country.
Masatoshi
Takeshita
February
7, 2013
F-35A (photo from Wikipedia)
English translation of an excerpt from a
Japanese article: Blog of Amaki Naoto – February 4, 2013 –
“An Inconvenient
Truth” on Japan’s Next Fighters F-35 Issue Mass Media Keep Concealing
Today on February 4 the Asahi Shimbun has
posted on the front page a scoop on the next fighters F-35 issue.
The U.S. plans to sell to
Israel the fighters F-35 for which parts made in Japan are used. The article reads that the Abe administration
has established a policy that it will admit the sale as a special case.
However, such conclusion was obvious
because it would be the biggest gift for the U.S. when the prime minister visits
the country at the end of February.
Instead, I doubt of the attitude of the
Asahi Shimbun’s reporting of this issue.
True nature of F-35 issue
is not an issue of violation of Three Principles of Arms Exports.
The problem lies in an
astonishing reality that Japan will introduce underdeveloped F-35 fighters and
Japan will become a hub for development, production and maintenance of the
aircraft.
To put it in another way,
the problem is the fact that Japan is finally going to become an accomplice to
U.S. military-industrial complex.
The Sankei Shimbun got a scoop on it on
January 29.
It is impossible that the Asahi did not
know it.
Why will the Asahi try to make no reference
to it?
No only Asahi but other media outlets in
this country won’t investigate the Sankei’s scoop and report it.
It appears that they try to conceal “an inconvenient
truth.”
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