The Diet has opened its extraordinary session. Prime Minister Abe Shinzo delivered his policy speech at the beginning. It was hollow, but was poisonous. He skipped serious facts, paying no attention, in terms of polices on the aging society with few-childbirths and development of local economies. He attacked Republic of Korea (ROK) treacherously in his diplomatic arena and uttered anachronistic comments on the Constitution.

AN OUTDATED SPEECH HAS NO EFFECTIVE POLICY OF TODAY

Premier Abe showed off the ‘greatest reform in the past 70 years’, referring to a free-of-charge policy on education of young children, though he tells the greatest challenge is to cope with the aging society. But his new, proud policy ignores crucial points - cautions on safety and shortage of facilities and nursing staff.

His true colors exposed

Premier Abe applauded newly elected Councilor Funago Yasuhiko from the Reiwa party as a friend, who is an ALS patient. But soon the premier’s true colors were exposed as he rejected a request from the party president, Yamamoto Taro, to give a chance of an appointment in the post of Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Premier is very proud of his public services policy for all the generations. He emphasized preventive measures so that people can work in good health until they are 70 years old. In other words Premier wants to evade medical and elderly care services to make everyone work self-consciously and independently without these services.

His real intention lies in a social policy reform based on another surges of consumption tax rate. He has silently closed the issue as he will wait for some time until the constitution is successfully amended.

Premier mentioned on his growth strategy, but the economy gets worse, adversely, due to the heightened consumption tax rate. The recession has not been overcome by way of the biggest financial and monetary steps to activate business activities. Tax money must be appropriated to a demand side, including the minimum pension benefits, but the government chose a tax hike, which works absolutely contrarily on the real economy. He stated, finally, that he will help those strata of young people who began their career at the severest periods of employment, though his policies will not work effectively.

As for the bilateral trade issue between the US and Japan, he was obliged to tell ‘facing anxieties of farming population’. Then he talked about, as an excuse, an increase in the export of agricultural products to Vietnam and European countries.

He boasted, saying that the export of agri-products of Fukushima grew by 40% thanks to the deregulation policies based on his diplomatic efforts, but did not say anything about the cruel cut-off measure of subsidies to evacuees from the nuclear power plant accident, releasing of radio-actively contaminated water to the ocean and the circulation of dirty money relevant to the power industry.

Concerning the consumption tax, Premier Abe showed off his policies on free-of-charge education, alleviation measures to respond to the surge, premium payment benefits, and a tax reduction for a purchase of automobile and residence. He arrogantly admires himself, saying he has done the best during his tenure.

Let’s look at diplomacy, national security and the constitution of the Abe version. While stressing free trade, he does not explain the export restrictions to Republic of Korea. While declaring that a new age has come in the relations between China and Japan and that he is intended to have a meeting with President Kim Jong Un without any premises, Premier would not have a talk with President Moon Jae-in of ROK, insisting on compliance with the pledges between the two nations. The rhetoric represents a double standard. He does not even touch on the current, worst Japan-ROK relations in the post-war era. It is abnormal.

A convinced criminal who knows history

Mr. Abe’s logical discrepancy is seen in the comment on the constitution. He told: Japan proposed a hundred years ago in the Peace Conference in Paris equality of races and that the idea was exposed to severe oppositions in the era when the European nations and the United States had colonies extensively. Then he preached that the proposal had become the very basis of the international convention on the human rights. He continued that, learning from the predecessors, ‘it is the right time to raise this ideal high to shape this country into the future’. He concluded, saying that ‘debates should be made in the Constitution Examination Council pursuant to the ideal to create our nation’.

Japan colonized Taiwan and Korea one hundred years ago. This country intended to be the chief of the Great Asia Prosperity Sphere. Certainly knowing about the historic events, Premier Abe dared to utter these phrases. He is a convinced criminal of the Japanese Imperialism.

October 15, 2019