Japanese Major Suggests Military Coup:Your Opinion?
me...@cns.nyu.edu
As reported in last Fridays NY Times, Major Shinsaku Yanai
wrote an article in the Shukan Bunshun discussing his
belief that the military should depose the civilian Government,
much as the Imperial Army did in the 1930's, because of the
continuing scandals of the ruling party.
From the NY Times (reprinted without permission)
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"It is no longer possible to correct injustice through
an election in the legitimate way that is the basis of
democracy," Major Yanai concluded after reciting the worst
instances of influence-peddling and corruption over the last few years.
"The only means left is revolution or a coup d'etat."
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It also comes at a particularly delicate time, when Japan is trying
to convince its neighbors that the Self-Defense Forces are far different
from the Imperial Army. Members of the force were sent to Cambodia
to join United Nations peacekeepers in the first deploymeny of
Japanese troops overseas since the end of World War II - a move
that touched off considerable protest here that Japan was
preparing to rearm itself.
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What is your opinion of this? Should or shouldn't
Japan's neighbors be afraid? What are the odds?