August 6, 2011 -- Tokyo -- On anniversary of U.S. A-Bomb attack on Hiroshima, a national re-awkening in Japan
On this 66th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb by the United States on Hiroshima, there is a general sense that the Japanese people are involved in a national re-awakening. With the people of Japan nervously eyeing the fluctuating levels from the crippled nuclear reactors at Fukushima, the Japanese people are no longer willing to accept everything their government tells them at face value. And there is the belief by many that Fukushima may have been Japan's "Chernobyl" moment. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet republic of Ukraine in 1986 and the Kremlin's policy of lying about the scope of the disaster is thought to have been a contributing factor to the downfall of the Soviet regime.
Similarly, the government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan was roundly condemned by many Japanese for acting as a virtual public relations arm for the Fukshima complex's operator, the once politically-powerful Tokyo Elecrtric Company (TEPCO). Government oversight of the Japanese nuclear industry was seen as being nothing more than providing window dressing without any regulatory teeth. There are calls for the new oversight authority, the Nuclear Safety Agency, to have more independence from the government and the nuclear industry and provide real regulatory oversight over an industry that for years has curried political favors from successive Japanese governments.
A government panel has now concluded that TEPCO must pay compensation to inns, tour operators, travel agencies, and hotels last lost money after foreign tourists canceled their trips to Japan amid worries over the effects of radiation from the crippled Number 1 nuclear plant at Fukushima. TEPCO has also been ordered to compensate the tea, flower, beef, and manufacturing sectors.
The blow to Japan's economy from the March earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown has many Japanese fearful about international financial vultures manipulating the Japanese economy for their own personal gain. The increase in value of the yen, which adversely affects Japanese exports, is believed to be a part of the manipulation by the same group of bankers who have wreaked havoc on the economies of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the United States, forcing the adoption of crippling austerity measures that cuts sustaining wages and benefits to the middle and lower classes.
If Japan ends up in the same boat as some European countries and the United States, there is a fear in Japan that there could be an International Monetary Fund-dictated massive sell-off of public property and the end of Japan's generous social safety net programs, including public health care.
There are even whispers by some influential Japanese that it is such interests as the Rothschild banking family that is secretly manipulating the attacks on the Japanese economy, sensing its vulnerability is the aftermath of the triple quake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters. The concurrent belief that Japan never actually re-gained its independence after General Douglas MacArthur's occupation regime came to power after Japan's surrender in 1945 is also gaining strength.
Distrust of the United States, seen as being in the hip-pocket of the Rothschild-George Soros-Goldman Sachs axis, coupled with a fear of the growing military and economic might to China, which has overtaken Japan as the world's second-largest economy, has resulted in growing calls for Japan to, once again, re-assert its political and military muscle by scrapping the U.S.-imposed Self Defense Forces and engaging in a rapid military build-up that would enable Japan to project its power beyond its own airspace and waters.
Amid the concrete and glass towers of Tokyo there are stirrings about what the global bankers have in store for Japan.
On this 66th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb by the United States on Hiroshima, there is a general sense that the Japanese people are involved in a national re-awakening. With the people of Japan nervously eyeing the fluctuating levels from the crippled nuclear reactors at Fukushima, the Japanese people are no longer willing to accept everything their government tells them at face value. And there is the belief by many that Fukushima may have been Japan's "Chernobyl" moment. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet republic of Ukraine in 1986 and the Kremlin's policy of lying about the scope of the disaster is thought to have been a contributing factor to the downfall of the Soviet regime.
Similarly, the government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan was roundly condemned by many Japanese for acting as a virtual public relations arm for the Fukshima complex's operator, the once politically-powerful Tokyo Elecrtric Company (TEPCO). Government oversight of the Japanese nuclear industry was seen as being nothing more than providing window dressing without any regulatory teeth. There are calls for the new oversight authority, the Nuclear Safety Agency, to have more independence from the government and the nuclear industry and provide real regulatory oversight over an industry that for years has curried political favors from successive Japanese governments.
A government panel has now concluded that TEPCO must pay compensation to inns, tour operators, travel agencies, and hotels last lost money after foreign tourists canceled their trips to Japan amid worries over the effects of radiation from the crippled Number 1 nuclear plant at Fukushima. TEPCO has also been ordered to compensate the tea, flower, beef, and manufacturing sectors.
The blow to Japan's economy from the March earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown has many Japanese fearful about international financial vultures manipulating the Japanese economy for their own personal gain. The increase in value of the yen, which adversely affects Japanese exports, is believed to be a part of the manipulation by the same group of bankers who have wreaked havoc on the economies of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the United States, forcing the adoption of crippling austerity measures that cuts sustaining wages and benefits to the middle and lower classes.
If Japan ends up in the same boat as some European countries and the United States, there is a fear in Japan that there could be an International Monetary Fund-dictated massive sell-off of public property and the end of Japan's generous social safety net programs, including public health care.
There are even whispers by some influential Japanese that it is such interests as the Rothschild banking family that is secretly manipulating the attacks on the Japanese economy, sensing its vulnerability is the aftermath of the triple quake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters. The concurrent belief that Japan never actually re-gained its independence after General Douglas MacArthur's occupation regime came to power after Japan's surrender in 1945 is also gaining strength.
Distrust of the United States, seen as being in the hip-pocket of the Rothschild-George Soros-Goldman Sachs axis, coupled with a fear of the growing military and economic might to China, which has overtaken Japan as the world's second-largest economy, has resulted in growing calls for Japan to, once again, re-assert its political and military muscle by scrapping the U.S.-imposed Self Defense Forces and engaging in a rapid military build-up that would enable Japan to project its power beyond its own airspace and waters.
Amid the concrete and glass towers of Tokyo there are stirrings about what the global bankers have in store for Japan.
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