Month: August 2015

Hiromichi Kumada, Japanese politician, he confessed in his homepage that he wasn’t a good student. He didn’t like young teacher and would like to argue her into silence. Then his group locked her in a bathroom stall and threw crackers in one after another. She ordered them to open the door first but as they threw crackers again and again, she came to beg and finally scared. After they got satisfied, they opened the door and she ran away from smoke. Of course, they were forced to make up for it after that. What is controversial is that he wrote it in his homepage and boasted that memory.

Many Japanese read the article and got mad and criticized him. He finally apologized and removed the article but he will be payed for it again at next election.

After WW2, Japan has had the constitution, which bans Japan from fighting against foreign countries and having army. The constitution was imposed by the USA so that Japan wouldn’t invade foreign countries. But when Korean war broke out, there needed protection in Japan. Thus the USA made Japan fund Japan Self-Defense Forces, which is equivalent to army. Many people thought it was against that constitution, but the Japanese government said that she has the right to do self-deference and it’s not army to invade foreign countries so that she has the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Still, the Japanese government has allowed right to individual self-defense and not allowed Right of collective self-defense. In other words, Japanese couldn’t support the USA, Japanese ally in battlefield.

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