The Japanese government is being accused of mounting a cover-up worthy of China itself, as not only is it fighting demands that it release a coast guard video of an alleged ramming of a coast guard ship by a Japanese vessel at every step, it is also only offering a 6 minute video of an incident which took nearly 3 hours to unfold.
Critics are already accusing it of editing the video to show China in a less unfavourable light.
Debates about whether to release the video of the incident to public continue, with still no conclusion reached. The government/DPJ position is that the video must not be released as it could “damage relations with China.”
The alternative is a limited showing of part of the video to selected Diet members – a measure unlikely to satisfy the public or anyone else outside of the party.
However, suspicions are mounting over the video itself, which is said to constitute a DVD containing only 6 minutes of video, despite the entire incident having taken 2 hours and 40 minutes to unfold, during which time the coast guard was able to meticulously document everything which happened.
Opposition LDP politicians have openly voiced doubts about whether the government is trying to cover something up: “It is mysterious. Has it not been edited?”
All that has surfaced so far are official accounts made by the government with Chinese relations in mind and the less than reliable testimony of the accused captain and the Chinese government.
The video seems to have convinced Okinawa prosecutors they could have won a conviction, and photos of the Chinese vessel show a large and powerful ocean-going ship which could easily have been involved in a ramming – aside from this evidence just what went on is a closely guarded secret for some reason.
Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara has already claimed he has heard that the video shows the Chinese fishermen harpooning a Japanese coast guard member, certainly incendiary content which could conceivably topple the government and discredit China completely.
As part of their efforts to see the video never sees the light of day, a senior DPJ politician even began claiming that releasing it would violate the human rights of those involved in the investigation, remarks which were widely interpreted as referring to the Chinese captain originally charged with ramming the ship.
In light of this and the size of the cuts it is easy to see why many are convinced the government will now do anything it takes to protect relations with China – even preparing a heavily doctored version to show to the Diet or public in the event withholding the video becomes untenable.
In other news, when asked whether they think the video should be made public, 95% of Japanese agreed:
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whatever the fisherman have done,Senkaku island still belongs to China,there’s no doubt.
China gets stronger,but there’s no reason to be attacked from other countries.our world must develop,our earth need peace,we people are all played by the government,why we have to argue on this fucking bullshit,why we have to fight with our neighbours.
if chinese want to fight,they were already done it.we must know how many innocent people were killed by the japanese army during the WW2.
Anyone thinks that if Japan DID won WW2, There would be no Chinese Civil War (though it started in 1927, but let’s just said both side were defeated by the Japanese), definitely no Korean War, since Japan would still be in control.
China is a big Country to be totally in Japanese control, so Japan would probably divide China up and create several pro-Japanese puppet states.
When peace is achieved, Japan could turn China into another Taiwan, an industrialized colony with educational institution to educate everyone.
Japan also modernized Korea during it’s rule.
And then Glorious Nippon would crush the rest of the world using Chinese, Korean, and Indian human waves against Western countries crippled by Japanese biological weapons. Awesome.
Why is it that everyone jumps to the conclusion that it was the fisherman in the wrong? Certainly it would make sense for the DJP to protect Japanese relations with China – but the fisherman himself is not a Chinese ambassador or politician, and his actions really shouldn’t have any bearing on political matters.
If they had released the video immediately after the incident by showing the fisherman supposedly ramming and harpooning a coast guard, I’m quite certain the Chinese government would not condone his actions or support him in any way. In fact, China would place more value on its trade relations with Japan and, at the very most, ask for the accused to be returned home for trial (another matter entirely).
From an unbiased third-party perspective, all evidence points towards the government trying to hide something that could put themselves in bad light. After all, with the world as the audience, Japan has much more motive for covering up their own mistakes than that of China’s. Assuming that the fisherman was in fact guilty of these accusations, then any retaliation on behalf of China would be condemned by every other civilized nation in the world.
Furthermore, the claim that releasing the video would damage relations with China obviously creates a very anti-Chinese sentiment among Japanese citizens, which really isn’t much better than releasing the video in its entirety.
I’m not going to go around discrediting everyone here as weeaboos and Japanophiles, but please take a step back and view things objectively before drawing irrational conclusions.
but how could Japan win the war? What about the US, how can Japan defeat China when it have to deal with the US at the same time? The US would’ve won against Japan during the War, Japan wouldn’t have enough strength to attack China at the same time as fighting US in the Pacific.
Also, the Soviet Union would’ve invade as well.
A What if… scenario.
What if… Japan didn’t surrender after the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sure many would believe that Japan would’ve lost anyway and would be the first time in history to be invaded by an foreign forces. (Btw, I still don’t think Japan had never been invaded, the surrender of Japan led to an American Occupation, technically not an invasion. And Okinawa, nor Hokkaido wouldn’t count, as those two are not considered Japan proper. Both were considered, in ancient times, to be not part of Japan home islands, Hokkaido are home to the Ainu while Okinawa, aka Ryukyus, were ruled by the Ryukyu people).
In recent times, researcher disclosed reports that Japan during WW2 was building atomic weapons as well, in Manchuria and Northern Korea. Though in a smaller scale than it’s American counterpart. they actually tested one just within a few days before the surrender.
If Japan were to called Truman’s bluff (he only had two atomic bombs), then an American invasion was imminent. but if Japan would’ve speed up it’s atomic weapons program, Japan could’ve successfully built several small ones in a short time.
Another trump card that the Japanese have are the I-400 Submarine aircraft carriers and the I-200 submarines.
I-400 could carry 3 aircraft fitted with bombers and carry enough fuel to go around the world 1 and a half times. 3 were operational by the end of the war and were on a mission to destroy Panama Canal to prevent American ships to move from Atlantic to Pacific. other targets were New York (think Manhattan Project), Washington, D.C. and other large cities.
I-400 were known to be the largest submarines until the nuclear subs were built.
I-200 were the fastest submarines during the war.
In addition, Japanese Submarine technology were consider to be more advanced than Americans. The torpedo type-93 and Type-95 were considered the most advanced and reliable torpedos during it’s time.
For more info, go to wikipedia.
If Japan can held off just enough time for both the nuclear weapons and the I-400 and I-200 to complete it’s mission, They could’ve had America to sued for peace. Which would give Japan a free hand to deal with China.
You’ll have more meaningful talking to a brick wall than the retards here.