The Japanese government and the opposition are the children and grandchildren of the same people that have always run the country and they select who will run for office and who will not. The Japanese people have next to no say in who governs them. The party selects and the people (much like in the UK) only get to vote for who is put forward. Big business runs Japan from behind the scenes, it always has.
There are on occasions one or two politicos that try to bring about change, but when they push too hard they fall very quickly. Koizumi Jun’ichiro did well to have lasted as long as he did. I don’t even know where to begin with his family of politicos there are so many. Abe Shinzo is another that comes from a family of politicians dating back generations and married into other political families. Aso Taro the same. Hatoyama Yukio’s family go all the way back to the Meiji period as politicians. Kan Naoto is different but I am beginning to wonder if he is being put up to be sacrificed. He comes from a business family rather than a political one. The man that we really need to watch here is Odano Yukio, he is what people in the West would see as a real politician in the old sense of the word, tough and straight, though that might well be, along with what is happening at the moment what brings him down, he has already been stabbed in the back within his own party when they put Katsuya Okada (old school political family) up for prime minister in front of him.
The West sees the high tech country but what they don’t see is what lies behind that, The Tokugawa Shogunate didn’t end it transmuted into Sonny, Mitsubishi, (there are several of these, but really only two, a real monster plus a lesser monster) and the list goes on, many you will know by one name or another. These are the real owners and controllers of Japan and they do not care if a few tens of thousands die.
Japan is a face and no none Japanese is going to see behind that face. Tepco has a face that it is not allowing anybody to see behind, not even the government of Japan can get them to admit that they have made a total mess of things. In a few months time there will be apologies and yes a suicide or two and that will put everything back in place until the next time and the next time.
If any good could come from the horrors of this last week it would be that somebody like Odano Yukio might make it into power and have the people behind him to fight against the old guard and big business. But it hasn’t happened in the last 400 years so I am not expecting too much. Behind that high tech mask is a feudal society where everybody (almost) knows their place and the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
There are on occasions one or two politicos that try to bring about change, but when they push too hard they fall very quickly. Koizumi Jun’ichiro did well to have lasted as long as he did. I don’t even know where to begin with his family of politicos there are so many. Abe Shinzo is another that comes from a family of politicians dating back generations and married into other political families. Aso Taro the same. Hatoyama Yukio’s family go all the way back to the Meiji period as politicians. Kan Naoto is different but I am beginning to wonder if he is being put up to be sacrificed. He comes from a business family rather than a political one. The man that we really need to watch here is Odano Yukio, he is what people in the West would see as a real politician in the old sense of the word, tough and straight, though that might well be, along with what is happening at the moment what brings him down, he has already been stabbed in the back within his own party when they put Katsuya Okada (old school political family) up for prime minister in front of him.
The West sees the high tech country but what they don’t see is what lies behind that, The Tokugawa Shogunate didn’t end it transmuted into Sonny, Mitsubishi, (there are several of these, but really only two, a real monster plus a lesser monster) and the list goes on, many you will know by one name or another. These are the real owners and controllers of Japan and they do not care if a few tens of thousands die.
Japan is a face and no none Japanese is going to see behind that face. Tepco has a face that it is not allowing anybody to see behind, not even the government of Japan can get them to admit that they have made a total mess of things. In a few months time there will be apologies and yes a suicide or two and that will put everything back in place until the next time and the next time.
If any good could come from the horrors of this last week it would be that somebody like Odano Yukio might make it into power and have the people behind him to fight against the old guard and big business. But it hasn’t happened in the last 400 years so I am not expecting too much. Behind that high tech mask is a feudal society where everybody (almost) knows their place and the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
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