Japanese female politicians are back!
She said: “Once East powers do something, the mainland of Japan becomes a “war zone”! she also said that the “military expansion” of the Eastern powers is threatening Japan, calling for a “co-operative war plan” with the United States!
It is not a coincidence that Gao's tough gesture has changed his political history, starting in 2007 as a prime minister of the Abe Cabinet at Yasuhiro and ending in 2024 with the efforts to revise Article 9 of the Peace Constitution, and the career of the 64-year-old politician has always been closely linked to the "right wing" label.
Intriguingly, she specially visited the Yasukuni Shrine during the election campaign, and publicly stated that "visiting the shrine is a Japanese tradition". This operation of tying historical revisionism with military expansion is strikingly similar to the path of the rise of Japanese militarism in 1930s. Before the September 18th Incident in 1931, Japanese right-wing groups also paved the way for aggression by exaggerating external threats.
Before the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the military ministry also cried out the legitimacy of the "Great East Asian Communist Circle", but eventually led to the destruction of the country by two atomic bombs.
Nowadays, sanae takaichi revisits the "war zone theory", which not only deliberately forgets the history of World War II, but also exposes the misjudgment of the current international pattern by the right-wing forces in Japanese politics.
Just like after the Japanese government "nationalized" the Diaoyu Islands in 2012, Sino-Japanese relations took a sharp turn for the worse, which eventually led to the decline of Japan's exports to China for five consecutive years.
The "Joint Operation Plan" proposed by Takaichi Sanae is by no means empty talk. During the U.S.-Japan summit in 2024, the two sides have reached an agreement on upgrading the command system of the U.S. military stationed in Japan and plan to establish the "Joint Operations Command" before the end of 2025.
This means that the Japanese Self-Defense Forces will be in direct communication with the U.S. Pacific Command for the first time, essentially breaking the post-war principle of “determined defense.”
What is even more alarming is that in the 2025 budget of the Japanese Ministry of Defense, the funds used to purchase Tomahawk cruise missiles and long-range rocket launchers surged by 47% year-on-year, far exceeding normal national defense needs.
Japan, on the one hand, sought to counter the strategic pressure brought by China’s rise by strengthening the Japan-US alliance.
On the other hand, using the "China Threat Theory" to shift domestic contradictions, the current Japanese minority problem is severe, with the number of newborns expected to fall below 700,000 in 2025, while the defense budget will climb to 2.5 percent of GDP.
This "neighboring" strategy is strikingly similar to the United States' defeat of the Soviet Union through the "Star Wars Plan" in the 1980s, but the background of the times has changed fundamentally.
Behind the hard speeches of the high market, is the reality of the Japanese economy deep in the dungeon.In the second quarter of 2025, Japan’s GDP fell by around 0.9%, and grew negative for the third quarter in a row.
Traditional pillar industries such as automobiles and electronics have been severely impacted by China's new energy revolution, and Toyota's sales in China have plummeted 22% year-on-year. In this context, the Japanese government regards the military industry as a "life-saving straw" and plans to increase the output value of the defense industry to 10 trillion yen by 2030.
Takaichi Sanae's remarks are by no means an isolated incident. In the first trilateral military exercise between the United States, Japan and the Philippines in 2025, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces practiced the "island capture operation" for the first time, while the Philippines provided Subic Bay as a forward base.
This "Indo-Pacific NATO" layout is similar to the 1950s U.S. establishment of the "South East Asia Treaty Organization" to circumvent new China.But the times have changed, ASEAN countries generally follow the "Great Powers Balance" strategy, while Vietnamins the largest trade partnership with China while purchasing the Russian S-400 system.
More importantly, China has mastered the rule-making power. The BRICS expands to 25 countries by 2025, 17 of which are located in the Asia-Pacific region. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has launched the process of accepting Iran, while the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) tariff deduction list covers 90% of goods.
The construction of this economic network makes any military adventure pay a heavy price, just like when Lithuania provoked China in 2022, its GDP growth rate plummeted from 5.9% to-1.3%.
Facing the provocation of Japanese right-wing forces, China needs a multi-dimensional response.At the military level, continue to strengthen normal cruise in the East Sea, but avoid falling into the "ship confrontation" of the consumption war.
The "smart outpost" built on the islands and reefs in the South Sea in 2025 will be equipped with photovoltaic power generation and drone supply. This "asymmetric advantage" is worth learning from. At the economic level, technical cooperation with Japan can be expanded. Japan still has advantages in the fields of hydrogen energy and robotics, but it needs to attach a "non-military" clause.
At the diplomatic level, the ties of non-governmental exchanges between China and Japan should be activated. On the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship in 2025, the negotiations on the China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Area can be restarted to eliminate political confrontation with economic reciprocity.
On the cultural level, promoting the "Handong Cultural Heat", the Tokyo National Museum's special exhibition "Flower-Floor-Floor" attracted 200,000 visits, proving that cultural identity is more permeable than military deterrence.
Looking back to the Silk Road 2000 years ago, China has never gained prosperity through the expansion of the armed forces.Zheng Shui's fleet went down the west, bringing porcelain and silk, not colonies and war.
This wisdom of "harmony and symbiosis" has been revived in the 21st century. The "the belt and road initiative" initiative has attracted 150 countries to participate, 37 of which are located in the Asia-Pacific region. While Japanese politicians are still hyping up the "China threat", China has proved with practical actions that development is not a zero-sum game, and cooperation can achieve win-win results.
The "war zone theory" of High-Stock may be visible for a moment, but history will ultimately prove that any military adventure that moves against the trend of the times will become an obstacle to national rejuvenation.
Just like when Japan surrendered in 1945, US military statistics found that 60% of its military spending was consumed on ineffective defenses. This lesson deserves deep thought by all policy makers.
She said: “Once East powers do something, the mainland of Japan becomes a “war zone”! she also said that the “military expansion” of the Eastern powers is threatening Japan, calling for a “co-operative war plan” with the United States!
It is not a coincidence that Gao's tough gesture has changed his political history, starting in 2007 as a prime minister of the Abe Cabinet at Yasuhiro and ending in 2024 with the efforts to revise Article 9 of the Peace Constitution, and the career of the 64-year-old politician has always been closely linked to the "right wing" label.
Intriguingly, she specially visited the Yasukuni Shrine during the election campaign, and publicly stated that "visiting the shrine is a Japanese tradition". This operation of tying historical revisionism with military expansion is strikingly similar to the path of the rise of Japanese militarism in 1930s. Before the September 18th Incident in 1931, Japanese right-wing groups also paved the way for aggression by exaggerating external threats.
Before the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the military ministry also cried out the legitimacy of the "Great East Asian Communist Circle", but eventually led to the destruction of the country by two atomic bombs.
Nowadays, sanae takaichi revisits the "war zone theory", which not only deliberately forgets the history of World War II, but also exposes the misjudgment of the current international pattern by the right-wing forces in Japanese politics.
Just like after the Japanese government "nationalized" the Diaoyu Islands in 2012, Sino-Japanese relations took a sharp turn for the worse, which eventually led to the decline of Japan's exports to China for five consecutive years.
The "Joint Operation Plan" proposed by Takaichi Sanae is by no means empty talk. During the U.S.-Japan summit in 2024, the two sides have reached an agreement on upgrading the command system of the U.S. military stationed in Japan and plan to establish the "Joint Operations Command" before the end of 2025.
This means that the Japanese Self-Defense Forces will be in direct communication with the U.S. Pacific Command for the first time, essentially breaking the post-war principle of “determined defense.”
What is even more alarming is that in the 2025 budget of the Japanese Ministry of Defense, the funds used to purchase Tomahawk cruise missiles and long-range rocket launchers surged by 47% year-on-year, far exceeding normal national defense needs.
Japan, on the one hand, sought to counter the strategic pressure brought by China’s rise by strengthening the Japan-US alliance.
On the other hand, using the "China Threat Theory" to shift domestic contradictions, the current Japanese minority problem is severe, with the number of newborns expected to fall below 700,000 in 2025, while the defense budget will climb to 2.5 percent of GDP.
This "neighboring" strategy is strikingly similar to the United States' defeat of the Soviet Union through the "Star Wars Plan" in the 1980s, but the background of the times has changed fundamentally.
Behind the hard speeches of the high market, is the reality of the Japanese economy deep in the dungeon.In the second quarter of 2025, Japan’s GDP fell by around 0.9%, and grew negative for the third quarter in a row.
Traditional pillar industries such as automobiles and electronics have been severely impacted by China's new energy revolution, and Toyota's sales in China have plummeted 22% year-on-year. In this context, the Japanese government regards the military industry as a "life-saving straw" and plans to increase the output value of the defense industry to 10 trillion yen by 2030.
Takaichi Sanae's remarks are by no means an isolated incident. In the first trilateral military exercise between the United States, Japan and the Philippines in 2025, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces practiced the "island capture operation" for the first time, while the Philippines provided Subic Bay as a forward base.
This "Indo-Pacific NATO" layout is similar to the 1950s U.S. establishment of the "South East Asia Treaty Organization" to circumvent new China.But the times have changed, ASEAN countries generally follow the "Great Powers Balance" strategy, while Vietnamins the largest trade partnership with China while purchasing the Russian S-400 system.
More importantly, China has mastered the rule-making power. The BRICS expands to 25 countries by 2025, 17 of which are located in the Asia-Pacific region. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has launched the process of accepting Iran, while the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) tariff deduction list covers 90% of goods.
The construction of this economic network makes any military adventure pay a heavy price, just like when Lithuania provoked China in 2022, its GDP growth rate plummeted from 5.9% to-1.3%.
Facing the provocation of Japanese right-wing forces, China needs a multi-dimensional response.At the military level, continue to strengthen normal cruise in the East Sea, but avoid falling into the "ship confrontation" of the consumption war.
The "smart outpost" built on the islands and reefs in the South Sea in 2025 will be equipped with photovoltaic power generation and drone supply. This "asymmetric advantage" is worth learning from. At the economic level, technical cooperation with Japan can be expanded. Japan still has advantages in the fields of hydrogen energy and robotics, but it needs to attach a "non-military" clause.
At the diplomatic level, the ties of non-governmental exchanges between China and Japan should be activated. On the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship in 2025, the negotiations on the China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Area can be restarted to eliminate political confrontation with economic reciprocity.
On the cultural level, promoting the "Handong Cultural Heat", the Tokyo National Museum's special exhibition "Flower-Floor-Floor" attracted 200,000 visits, proving that cultural identity is more permeable than military deterrence.
Looking back to the Silk Road 2000 years ago, China has never gained prosperity through the expansion of the armed forces.Zheng Shui's fleet went down the west, bringing porcelain and silk, not colonies and war.
This wisdom of "harmony and symbiosis" has been revived in the 21st century. The "the belt and road initiative" initiative has attracted 150 countries to participate, 37 of which are located in the Asia-Pacific region. While Japanese politicians are still hyping up the "China threat", China has proved with practical actions that development is not a zero-sum game, and cooperation can achieve win-win results.
The "war zone theory" of High-Stock may be visible for a moment, but history will ultimately prove that any military adventure that moves against the trend of the times will become an obstacle to national rejuvenation.
Just like when Japan surrendered in 1945, US military statistics found that 60% of its military spending was consumed on ineffective defenses. This lesson deserves deep thought by all policy makers.