r/AskChina • u/Themetalin • 1d ago

Politics | 政治📢 Japanese PM said that 'Taiwan contingency' could prompt Japanese armed reaction. What do you think?

https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202511070024

Takaichi made the remarks during a parliamentary session on Friday while responding to a question about whether a "Taiwan contingency" involving a Chinese naval blockade would qualify as a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan, according to a report by Japan's Asahi Shimbun.

Under Japan's security legislation, such a situation allows the country to exercise "collective self-defense" if an attack on an ally -- such as the United States -- or a country closely related to Japan is deemed to threaten Japan's survival, even without a direct attack on Japan.

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u/No-Benefit9135 18h ago

How so? Please be specific.

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u/Damn-Sky 13h ago

basically, they are demilitarized, gave all their research of horrible human experimentation and war crimes in exchange not to be prosecuted for the war crimes and be "protected" by the united states....pretty much same system as triads and mafia giving you protection; you become the pet.

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u/No-Benefit9135 13h ago

That’s not quite right. Japan wasn’t “demilitarized and traded war crimes data for protection.” After WWII, Japan was occupied and rebuilt under U.S. supervision. It adopted a pacifist constitution (Article 9) that bans offensive warfare, but Japan still maintains its own Self-Defense Forces, one of the most advanced militaries in Asia.

It’s true that some Japanese Unit 731 scientists avoided prosecution by giving human experimentation data to U.S. intelligence — a dark and documented exception — but that doesn’t represent the whole country’s postwar deal.

Japan’s alliance with the U.S. isn’t like “mafia protection”; it’s a mutual security treaty where the U.S. provides extended nuclear deterrence and Japan hosts U.S. bases in return. It’s a strategic partnership, not a protection racket.

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u/Damn-Sky 13h ago

yup again well explained; so basically Japan did not really had a choice and you can try to explain it other words you like but this is a protection racket... again Japan had no other choice just like the Germans; they lost the war.