What a GREAT EXAMPLE they are setting for THEIR OWN PEOPLE and OTHER GOVERNMENTS!!!
"a formal admission of the secret agreements would be a stunning reversal, and confirm that previous governments systematically lied to the public"
Oh, konnichi wa, DO I EVER KNOW the FEELING!!
I don't think AmeriKa wants to talk to you now.
You better watch your back, boy!
"Japan to disclose secret nuclear deals with US" by Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press | January 11, 2010
TOKYO - To the government’s critics, it was a long and shocking act of official stonewalling: Agreements long hidden in Foreign Ministry files allowed nuclear-armed US warships to enter Japanese ports, violating a hallowed principle of postwar Japan. Yet their very existence was officially denied.
And bad karma, too.
Now, in a clear break from the past, a new prime minister has gone where none of his predecessors dared go: He has ordered a panel of ministry officials and academics to investigate the secret agreements. The findings, due out this month, are part of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s wide-ranging campaign to wrest power from the bureaucracy and make government more open than under the conservatives, who ruled Japan for most of the past 50 years.
Yes, OUR ALLIES and OUR GOVERNMENT, America -- KEEPING SECRETS FROM YOU!! But certainly AmeriKa's government (and newspapers) would NEVER DO THAT, huh?
They also could intensify public debate about the future of Japan’s longstanding security alliance with the United States, which has bases here. Hatoyama, a liberal who took office in September, has called for making the relationship more balanced, starting with efforts to evict an unpopular US base from the island of Okinawa.
Related: Japan Says We Need to Talk
We don't talk to people we are angry at.... but since we need a loan to fund our wars and tyranny, okay, let's talk.
That Japan agreed to let nuclear-armed ships enter its ports and waters ceased to be a secret some years ago with the declassification of American documents. Such ships had routinely docked in various Japanese ports since the 1960s, sometimes setting off protests.
Yeah, so EVERYBODY KNEW ABOUT IT (like SO MANY THINGS), but GOVERNMENTS STILL DENIED, huh?
But in a nation where memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki drive a fierce aversion to nuclear weapons, a formal admission of the secret agreements would be a stunning reversal, and confirm that previous governments systematically lied to the public....
Oh, I TEAR UP when I say SORRY, Japanese!!!
I wasn't even born yet, but I'M SORRY for those WORST WAR CRIMES in HISTORY!!!!
--more--"
Well, the question must be asked: Who Lost Japan?
