{"id":292692,"date":"2016-08-19T16:24:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=292692"},"modified":"2021-01-16T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T21:30:24","slug":"arrogant-insensitive-wrong-us-vp-biden-causes-uproar-with-remark-on-japans-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/arrogant-insensitive-wrong-us-vp-biden-causes-uproar-with-remark-on-japans-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Arrogant, insensitive, wrong\u2019: US VP Biden causes uproar with remark on Japan\u2019s constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Now that the truth is revealed, it’s time for Japan to write by itself its own constitution and get rid of all US military bases, which are an insult to the Japanese victims of US imperialism throughout centuries starting with the black ships forcing Japan to welcome US traders as \u201cdiplomats\u201d under canons threatening to destroy the Imperial Palace in 1854. US imperialism started a long time ago\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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US Vice-President Joe Biden made a remark slamming Donald Trump, but ended up in deep water with Japan instead, saying that the US \u201cwrote Japan\u2019s constitution.\u201d His comment was slammed as \u201carrogant\u201d, \u201cwrong\u201d, and \u201cinsensitive\u201d in Japan and beyond.<\/p>\n

Others pointed to the fact that Biden\u2019s words could trigger reform in Japan.<\/p>\n

Some said that Biden didn\u2019t check his facts properly, as he\u00a0\u201cessentially refuted the historical fact that Article 9 was proposed by then Japan PM Shidehara and approved by Gen. McArthur [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s remark came at a speech in Pennsylvania on Monday, referring to Donald Trump\u2019s earlier statement: if Japan doesn\u2019t cash in to keep the US presence in East Asia, it may be forced to defend itself without Washington\u2019s assistance, and maybe even have its own nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

So Biden lashed out at those words, saying that\u00a0\u201che [Trump] talks cavalierly about encouraging other nations \u2026 to develop nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere was he when in school?\u201d\u00a0Biden asked.\u00a0\u201cSomeone who lacks this judgment cannot be trusted,\u201d\u00a0he said.\u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s not qualified to know the [nuclear] codes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes he not understand we wrote Japan\u2019s constitution to say they couldn\u2019t be a nuclear power?\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n

His words got enormous backlash from both Japanese and international media, with the majority of outlets saying that it\u2019s out of extraordinary for such a high US official to put it quiet so straightforwardly.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Foreign Ministry refused to comment on Biden\u2019s remark, but referred to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s statement of March 2015, in which he said that the constitution had been written by occupying forces over a short period of time.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s constitution was adopted in 1947, and was indeed compiled under the US occupation that started after WWII.<\/p>\n

US authorities made the first draft and edited it following consultations with Japanese officials. The document was then approved by the Diet, the Japanese parliament.<\/p>\n

However, the constitution doesn\u2019t mention nukes specifically: Article 9 urges the Japanese to\u00a0\u201cforever renounce war\u201d\u00a0and never have\u00a0\u201cland, sea and air forces, as well as other war potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 1950s, Japan set up the Self-Defense Forces including ground, sea and air forces, with the authorities saying the force wasn\u2019t gathered to wage wars.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/356340-biden-japan-remark-nuclear\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Now that the truth is revealed, it’s time for Japan to write by itself its own constitution and get rid of all US military bases, which are an insult to the Japanese victims of US imperialism throughout centuries starting with the black ships forcing Japan to welcome US traders as \u201cdiplomats\u201d under canons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":292694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}