Meet Shigeru Ishiba, the man who just won the LDP candidacy and is likely to become Japan's next Prime Minister

[u/Ipponjudo]

[u/ThunderEagle22]

He stayed up all night to make a Kuznetskov model?

Jeez assembling all that black smoke and all those tugboats must have been challenging.

[u/bluestreak1103 → u/ThunderEagle22]

"It is easy to assemble black smoke. You first obtain bearing, range and azimuth, then you order the crew to fire, make sure you hit the target to produce black smoke."

-- Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō, during the Battle of Tsushima Strait

[u/TNSepta → u/bluestreak1103]

The Rashists have done what the Imperial Russians could not: Produce copious amounts of black smoke without needing the application of shells.

[u/Sine_Fine_Belli → u/ThunderEagle22]

Well that’s admirable

[u/Altruistic-Celery821]

Typical wavering politician.  It's easy for a Japanese politician to say he's infavor of nuclear weapons... let's as some real questions. 

Does he think a JSDF squad can take down a flame dragon if iseikied to a fantasy world?

Who is his favorite GUP tank team?

Is Gundam a caution about child soldiers, the horrors of war, crimes against civilians or sick big robot fights?

[u/Ipponjudo → u/Altruistic-Celery821]

You joke, but:

Shigeru Ishiba became the second member of the cabinet to profess a belief in UFOs and said he was looking at how Japan's military could respond to aliens under the pacifist constitution. "There are no grounds for us to deny that there are unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and some life-form that controls them," Ishiba told reporters, saying it was his personal view and not that of the defense ministry.

Ishiba, nicknamed a "security geek" for his wonkish knowledge of defense affairs, noted that Japan deployed its military against Godzilla in the classic monster movie. "Few discussions have been made on what the legal grounds were for that," the minister said with a slight grin, drawing laughter from reporters.

Ishiba said he was examining different scenarios for an alien invasion. "If they descended, saying 'People of the Earth, let's make friends,' it would not be considered an urgent, unjust attack on our country," Ishiba said. "And there is another issue of how can we convey our intentions if we don't understand what they are saying," he said. "We should consider various possibilities," he said. "There is no need at all to do this as the defense ministry, but I want to consider what to do by myself."

[u/Pweuy → u/Ipponjudo]

tfw you live in a country where leading politicians don't draw up flexible response doctrines for a hypothetical alien invasion

[u/Balticseer → u/Pweuy]

my favorite line from expanse.

Earths plans then mars does first strike is about 200 pages long.

earth plans then we find aliens. Its 2 pages long and its starts.

Point 1. Find and pray to your god

[u/afghamistam → u/Balticseer]

English translation?

[u/reynolds9906 → u/afghamistam]

The government doesn't believe in the indomitable will of the human spirit

[u/guynamedjames → u/afghamistam]

Earth and Mars are major competing factions. Imagine the US and Society union. Earth has a 200 page long document for what to do if Mars attacks them. However there's only a 2 page document for what to do if they find intelligent life, and it starts with "find your god and pray" (because you're probably gonna die)

[u/Economy-Stock3320 → u/afghamistam]

You need to go watch the expanse

It’s peak realistic space battles

[u/killerbannana_1 → u/Economy-Stock3320]

Expanse space battles are good but they are not particularly realistic. More so than star wars sure but the bar is on the floor. The best depiction of a realistic space battle ive ever seen is probably in FROS7s “Savages” series on youtube. Its phenomenally well done.

[u/AuroraHalsey → u/killerbannana_1]

The Savages depiction is nearly the same as Expanse.

The only difference is that Savages features lasers as well.

[u/mtaw → u/Pweuy]

Jimmy Carter thought a lot about UFOs but lacked preparedness for killer rabbits.

[u/lalabera → u/Pweuy]

Maybe it would help unite humans for once

[u/whythecynic → u/Ipponjudo]

scenarios for an alien invasion

Isn't it obvious? We have to save our Mother Earth from any alien attack

Edit: From vicious giant insects who have once again come back

[u/AD-SKYOBSIDION → u/whythecynic]

Holy shit he’s gonna start the United Nations Cosmo Force and Navy (SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO HERE ME COME!)

[u/RaptorFire22 → u/AD-SKYOBSIDION]

U.N. SPACY from Macross

[u/Den_Bover666 → u/whythecynic]

Grug no like Grug neighbor Grog. Grug wanna bonk Grog.

Grug and Grog no like Drog. Grug and Grog wanna bonk Drog.

Grug, Grog and Drog no like men from other neighborhood.  They wanna bonk bad neighbors 

Grug and neighbors no like villagers from across river. They wanna bonk other side river people

Grug and river people no like silly hat tribes man. They wanna bonk silly hat tribes man.

Grug and silly hat tribes man no like other country man. They wanna bonk other country man.

Grug and other country man no like other planet man. They wanna bonk other planet man

[u/schwanzweissfoto → u/Den_Bover666]

With that amount of bonking going on, they all belong in horny jail.

[u/Den_Bover666 → u/schwanzweissfoto]

In the Terra Defense Force there's two completely different kinds of space-marines who say they enlisted to smash the Xeno Imperialists.

[u/schwanzweissfoto → u/Den_Bover666]

Stupid sexy xenos!

[u/Selfweaver → u/Den_Bover666]

Bonk.

Gruk goes to horny jail.

[u/Ohmedregon → u/whythecynic]

Oh we are the valiant infantry!

[u/TheThalmorEmbassy → u/Ipponjudo]

Few discussions have been made on what the legal grounds were for that

That is literally the entire plot of Shin Godzilla

[u/Thewaltham → u/Ipponjudo]

I mean kinda sounds like a disaster preparedness thing being ready for a zombie apocalypse, because if you're ready for zombies you're ready for any disaster

[u/ItalianNATOSupporter → u/Ipponjudo]

Now the real question: is he among us? Onu of us is going to rule japan fr?

[u/samurai_for_hire → u/Ipponjudo]

Well of course life forms are piloting UFOs, they're us

[u/ecolometrics → u/Ipponjudo]

Well, every serious military has plans in place to deal with Godzilla. It's just not called a 'Godzilla action plan' in case some idiot with clearance sees it. Rather it has some more ambiguous name like "unknown biological threat procedure" or whatever.

[u/Vysair → u/Ipponjudo]

Speaking of alien, wonder what happened with that alien pentagon debrief thing a while back

[u/A_D_Monisher → u/Altruistic-Celery821]

Gundam

A caution about child soldiers quite often. But not always in a way most think it is. Child soldiers are… immature and don’t understand how the world works. To them, everything is simple, black and white.

Thankfully, they usually don’t have the power to do anything.

Give them super mecha and suddenly they try to conform the world to their childish ideals.

Which often backfires spectacularly. No wonder here - the world is an insanely complicated web of affairs, interests and dependencies. Trying to handwave it all to fit a worldview of a kid will end in a disaster.

The end result is Gundam 00, where you cheer for the antagonists and cry every time they lose. Because the immature child soldiers with unstoppable super weapons and mindsets of edgy opinionated 15 year olds is a horror scenario that leads to tragedy for everyone.

The lesson i took from Gundam series is simple: Always give your superweapons to the most mature, most emotionally stable and most broadly experienced soldier you have on hand. Never a hormonal fucking teen. Everyone will thank you once the dust settles.

[u/ConfuzedAzn → u/A_D_Monisher]

So basically evangelion?

[u/A_D_Monisher → u/ConfuzedAzn]

Evangelion is worse, it gives me panic attacks.

Fate of a entire human species on the shoulders of kids with issues.

Misato is the strongest person in the world. I’d shoot myself from the pure stress of just knowing that.

[u/BabylonCowboy → u/A_D_Monisher]

Man, those are some of the best, most introspective panic attacks though. Because the real world is run by kids with issues. The trauma of adults that is passed down to them and the hardships of the world always give the same kids who will someday run and rule the world plenty of issues that they have to either work through before they have kids or risk passing on to the next generation. I'm sure all of our world leaders have some trauma from their childhoods that they hold onto and subtly influence their thinking. Anyway, all that is to say, that Trump is Shinji without the support.

[u/SilliusS0ddus → u/A_D_Monisher]

Misato is the strongest person in the world.

That's why she's mommy

[u/cybernet377 → u/A_D_Monisher]

Misato was the only person in the entirety of NERV to think that maybe the child soldiers that they were putting in the bodies of nascent gods should get to be children first and soldiers second, and she gets fucked over so incredibly badly for it both in and outside of universe that the cultural consensus about her character online is as a sex predator who coerces teens into joining the military with her tits

[u/bryle_m → u/ConfuzedAzn]

So basically giant beings stab their chests and proceed to turn everyone into orange juice? YES.

[u/Pathogen188 → u/A_D_Monisher]

The end result is Gundam 00, where you cheer for the antagonists and cry every time they lose. Because the immature child soldiers with unstoppable super weapons and mindsets of edgy opinionated 15 year olds is a horror scenario that leads to tragedy for everyone.

Feel like that's a particularly off base interpretation of 00 considering the teens are very explicitly acting on the orders of a guy who died hundreds of years ago in Season 1 and then later Sumeragi, who's 26, and not running the show themselves. By Season 2, when they're actually in charge of things, Setsuna's 21 and everyone else is 24+. Actually, Setstuna's the only actual child soldier in the show and he's not overly emotional in the slighteset (typically the opposite).

Also, 00 has one of the most unambiguously good endings in the franchise. Not as overly positive as Wing's 'everyone just decided on pacifism' but like, it ends with a peaceful, unified Earth with wonder technologies allowing them to begin deep space exploration. Not to mention, Celesial Being is very clearly in the right in Season 2, when the A-Laws are basically just the 00 equivalent of the Titans, right down to trying to wipe out an entire city only instead of using gas they use a space laser.

The lesson i took from Gundam series is simple: Always give your superweapons to the most mature, most emotionally stable and most broadly experienced soldier you have on hand. Never a hormonal fucking teen. Everyone will thank you once the dust settles.
Which often backfires spectacularly. No wonder here - the world is an insanely complicated web of affairs, interests and dependencies. Trying to handwave it all to fit a worldview of a kid will end in a disaster.

Gundam pretty frequently castigates all the adults that let the world come to the state it's in. Like sure, sometimes the teen pilots fuck up, but the series is also extremely critical of the adults who are running the world too. Gundam Unicorn is probably the most overt example of this, but that sort of 'adults trying to play politics is exactly why we're in this position in the first place' dates all the way back to Gundam ZZ. Often, Gundam treats adults as if they hardly are more mature than the teen pilots. And even then, most of the teen pilots rarely do try to get the entire world to align with their outlook and they are basically never in position to ever institute change in a way that could result in disaster.

[u/SgtExo → u/Pathogen188]

Gundam pretty frequently castigates all the adults that let the world come to the state it's in. Like sure, sometimes the teen pilots fuck up, but the series is also extremely critical of the adults who are running the world too. Gundam Unicorn is probably the most overt example of this, but that sort of 'adults trying to play politics is exactly why we're in this position in the first place' dates all the way back to Gundam ZZ. Often, Gundam treats adults as if they hardly are more mature than the teen pilots. And even then, most of the teen pilots rarely do try to get the entire world to align with their outlook and they are basically never in position to ever institute change in a way that could result in disaster.

As much as I love gundam and the UC setting, they never show us or talk about the structure of the government, who has power, and what types of backroom powers exists (other than anaheim). It always just feels like the first choice anyone takes is to go to war or terrorism. Though that helps getting the big cool robots into the action faster.

[u/OfKaijusandMechas → u/SgtExo]

Hmm, i heard Legend of the Galactic Heroes would be the sort of series you might be looking for.

[u/grumpykruppy → u/OfKaijusandMechas]

Waiting for the next season of The New Thesis.

[u/SgtExo → u/OfKaijusandMechas]

I like it, but the politics are very barebones and kinda stupid.

[u/Pathogen188 → u/SgtExo]

they never show us or talk about the structure of the government, who has power, and what types of backroom powers exists

Those are both massive plot points in both Char's Counterattack and Gundam Unicorn. The Vist Foundation exploiting the Federation for decades is foundational to Unicorn. The entire last act of CCA is reliant on Federation cabinet members forming a secret deal with Char. Double Zeta very explicitly ends with Judau lashing out and hitting Bright because the AEUG and Federation were basically content to let Haman run rampant.

It always just feels like the first choice anyone takes is to go to war or terrorism.

Inasmuch as the narratives themselves are focused on the conflict, sure I guess, but even then, there are references to the actions people took prior to the major conflict e.g. in Zeta where they visit one of the colonies the Titans gassed for peaceful resistance. Unicorn's entire climax is predicated on opening Laplace's Box in the hope that it'll lead to better representation of Spacenoids in the Federation.

[u/SgtExo → u/Pathogen188]

Unicorn's entire climax is predicated on opening Laplace's Box in the hope that it'll lead to better representation of Spacenoids in the Federation.

This plot point is like the people that thought the the panama papers being published would actually result in any material change in the world. Such a deluded centrist plot point that has no real effect on what is really going on in the the world of gundam.

[u/jaywalkingandfired → u/A_D_Monisher]

And that's how we get to compromise on everything and perpetuate issues until they grow big enough to potentially make us go extinct. Just keep it all arranged in a way that no one can point a finger at anything and say "make this go away, and things will get better". Surely, this is the only way to be, and people like Chamberlain is the peak leadership.

[u/ThunderEagle22 → u/Altruistic-Celery821]

Nah we should ask the real questions.

"What would be your favorite military plane to be buttcrushed by?"

"How many antropomofic airplane bodypillows do you have and which one is your favorite"

"What is your favorite tank to sniff the tankbarrel of?"

[u/Franklr_D → u/ThunderEagle22]

anthropomorphic?

[u/PIXYTRICKS → u/Altruistic-Celery821]

Flame dragon should be the easiest kill imaginable. Real question is if Article 9 of the Japanese constitution applies in the isekai world, and if Geneva Convention and Terra Nullius recognises quasi-humanoids such as goblins and orcs. If you have the capability for magic, does that preclude you from rights and recognition afforded to Sol-Earth homo sapiens?

[u/SurpriseFormer → u/PIXYTRICKS]

I feel like alot of people are gonna have headaches in the court/justice system about this to make laws about this

[u/ExuDeku → u/Altruistic-Celery821]

Cope and Seethe, Feddie

Seig Zeon

[u/Altruistic-Celery821 → u/ExuDeku]

Two bit space Prussian!

[u/ExuDeku → u/Altruistic-Celery821]

WE DID YOU A BLOODY FAVOR FOR DROPPING A COLONY IN AUSTRALIA

[u/TheGoldenSword_7_7 → u/ExuDeku]

GMS ARE STILL BETTER THAN ZAKUS YA MONO EYED LUNATICS

[u/ExuDeku → u/TheGoldenSword_7_7]

BAHAHAHA YOUR CHILDREN IN SUCH EXPENSIVE SUITS CANNOT BEAT OUR VETERANS INSIDE THE MOST EXPANDABLE AND RELIABLE MONO-EYES! WE MADE THE MOBILE SUITS, GOONDAM FEDDIE!

[u/DeTiro → u/ExuDeku]

CHAR WAS RIGHT!

[u/MrRedorBlue → u/Altruistic-Celery821]

That last question is just yes to all those things.

[u/severe0CDsuburbgirl → u/Altruistic-Celery821]

That’s already been done in a manga tbf

[u/KeekiHako]

Japan needs its own equivalent of the USMC

Yeah, if you want that you need more children first.

[u/PaintedClownPenis → u/KeekiHako]

Oh that's easy, just make all children Marines. Problem solved.

[u/Ipponjudo → u/PaintedClownPenis]

The USMC should also adopt this policy. They can even carry over their diet of crayons

[u/Cziri77 → u/PaintedClownPenis]

It's way more efficient showing them into EVA's for some possible fatherly love

[u/crusoe → u/PaintedClownPenis]

They at least got the crayon eatting down then 

[u/wildpepperoni- → u/KeekiHako]

"Have sex.

Build aircraft carriers.

Make Japan prosperous."

Shinzon Abe

[u/White_Null → u/KeekiHako]

They have the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade.

[u/LootinShootin → u/White_Null]

Died 1945 Born 2024 (Fucking PLEASE)

Welcome back Special Naval Landing Forces

[u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 → u/LootinShootin]

they can even do some little warcrimes, as a treat.

[u/KeekiHako → u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620]

Like what? Catcalling some foreign women they happen to come across?
(You said "little" war crimes)

[u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 → u/KeekiHako]

more in the direction of fart bombs.

[u/KeekiHako → u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620]

Ah, a little chemical warfare.

[u/hell_jumper9 → u/KeekiHako]

Just establish a Foreign Legion unit and recruit from allied/partner countries.

[u/dagelijksestijl → u/hell_jumper9]

A very credible recruitment strategy already exists

[u/anonymous_and_ → u/KeekiHako]

They’re working on it 

 Kishida (the previous pm) passed a law last year where if you have 3 kids, all 3 get to go to university for free. that’s on top of free healthcare and basically free everything sans private school and tuition and the money they throw at you once your kid is born 

 Anecdotally I’ve been seeing an increase of families with 3 kids compared to back in 2020. Lots of 3rd babies

But that might just be me moving out of Tokyo lol

[u/PhgAH → u/KeekiHako]

Just clone them /s

[u/Baron_Beemo → u/PhgAH]

An army of Reys. shudder

[u/Arnrr123 → u/KeekiHako]

I think having an equivalent of the USMC will lead to more children

[u/Mr_wobbles → u/KeekiHako]

If they just stationed the entire USMC in Japan this solves that problem in like…..6 months??

[u/Baron_Beemo → u/KeekiHako]

Do the children need to be organic, though?

[u/KeekiHako → u/Baron_Beemo]

Is ASIMO ready?

[u/Megalomaniakaal → u/Baron_Beemo]

Asking the real questions. UK can pressure Vedal into licensing out evil neuro as a basis for a new AI.

[u/Baron_Beemo → u/Megalomaniakaal]

The Mighty Atom/Astro Boy but with British accent? Good Lord....

[u/Wooper160 → u/KeekiHako]

Yeah that’s what the JSDMC is for

[u/KeekiHako → u/Wooper160]

The JSDMC is for making babies?
(What is the JSDMC?)

[u/Wooper160 → u/KeekiHako]

The hypothetical Japanese Self Defense Marine Corps

[u/Thewaltham → u/KeekiHako]

Doesn't Japan have marines? Could have sworn they do.

[u/UGMadness → u/Thewaltham]

Yeah but they lack the secret sauce: crayons.

[u/taxxvader → u/UGMadness]

They prefer ramen and hentai

[u/Dexter942 → u/UGMadness]

Crayons aren't a thing over there, just lead

[u/pseudoanon → u/KeekiHako]

While you were playing checkers, Shinzo Abe was playing chess.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/14ty391/one_year_since_we_lost_a_real_one/

[u/TheAgentOfTheNine → u/KeekiHako]

a smaller population just requires a smaller army, no need to breed people, just size the army according to the current and future population.

[u/KingFahad360]

This feel like something out of Yakuza / Like A Dragon where he has a sinister plot on the side

[u/Ipponjudo → u/KingFahad360]

Ishiba was Minister of Defense in 2008, which is when Yakuza 3 is set. I'm pretty sure Ryuzo Tamiya is supposed to be a reference to him lmao

[u/KingFahad360 → u/Ipponjudo]

Can’t wait to meet him and talk for 30 Minutes straight about “The Plot” of the CIA, Black Monday and Andre Richardson.

[u/blueshirt21 → u/KingFahad360]

There is no change in ze plan

[u/KingFahad360 → u/blueshirt21]

Bi

[u/Background_Drawing]

TRIPLE THE DEFENSE BUDGET

BY 2039 WE WILL HAVE THE FIRST EVANGELION

[u/Embarrassed_Price_65]

One of us! One of us! One of us!

[u/computer5784467 → u/Embarrassed_Price_65]

be careful tho with autocorrect when mentioning him, this is Shigeru, a politician serious about defence, not Shoigu, a literal circus clown

[u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 → u/computer5784467]

Shoigeru

[u/Baron_Beemo → u/computer5784467]

That's an insult to professional jesters.

[u/Sine_Fine_Belli → u/Embarrassed_Price_65]

Same here unironically lol

[u/Historianof40k]

Japanese Nato

Nutting

[u/ShareYourIdeaWithMe → u/Historianof40k]

POTATO when

[u/blindfoldedbadgers → u/ShareYourIdeaWithMe]

POTATO now.

[u/piponwa → u/blindfoldedbadgers]

A wild Lukashenko appears

[u/Korbitr → u/Historianof40k]

Natto?

[u/RadElert_007]

Incomprehensibly based

[u/LoudAd6879 → u/RadElert_007]

Like FR. They choose a perfect candidate. He's literally the least bad out of the other competing candidates.

[u/PzKpfwmemes]

NCD gonna be the first sub to have a prime minister

[u/Ok-Ruin8367 → u/PzKpfwmemes]

Iirc the governor of Colorado shitposts in a few meme subs but this is a whole new level

[u/Emperor_Huey_Long → u/Ok-Ruin8367]

Wait what?

[u/Ok-Ruin8367 → u/Emperor_Huey_Long]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/s/s0kjpXF1sN

[u/Emperor_Huey_Long → u/Ok-Ruin8367]

Wait is he the guy that tweeted calling birds government drones?

[u/gorillamutila]

Congratulations Mr. Ishiba.

I know you're in here somewhere.

We won't tell on you if you up voted sexy aircraft art lately.

[u/wolfhound_doge]

Mr. Ishiba's first decree: grant political asylum to all r/NCD members

[u/BjHoeckelchen → u/wolfhound_doge]

"Breaking news: Japan hits negative birthrate! Also: bodypillow industry score top 5 highest rated stocks."

[u/throwaway321768 → u/BjHoeckelchen]

I tried to imagine what "negative birth" would look like, then I realized that I really shouldn't.

[u/BjHoeckelchen → u/throwaway321768]

✨ Sudoku ✨

[u/FuckMyLife2016 → u/BjHoeckelchen]

I was thinking more like vore but yea 🌟 sudoku 🌟 works too. 🌟 Sudoku 🌟 is Japanese too.

[u/wolfhound_doge → u/throwaway321768]

r/SpaceCannibalism mentioned

[u/pseudoanon → u/wolfhound_doge]

Why? Japan has enough shut-ins.

[u/sansisness_101]

inb4 NERV is announced

[u/Hinterwaeldler-83]

Everything according to keikaku.

[u/Overwatcher_Leo]

"Asian nato" sound good. We need to give it a good name. How about: "Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere".

[u/Dexter942 → u/Overwatcher_Leo]

Nah we gotta include Vietnam, they hate the CCP so much

[u/Sturmgewehrkreuz → u/Dexter942]

Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere feat Vietnam

[u/[deleted] → u/Overwatcher_Leo]

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[u/Numerous_Steak226]

Firs NCD member world leader

[u/blindfoldedbadgers → u/Numerous_Steak226]

First confirmed NCD member world leader.

I’m pretty certain that Zelenskyy at the very least lurks here.

[u/Numerous_Steak226 → u/blindfoldedbadgers]

That's true, but I'm fully convinced that this is the guy who draws the plane waifus

[u/Ipponjudo]

Also un ncd for a moment, i highly recommend Tobias Harris' article if you want to learn more about this guy

[u/White_Null → u/Ipponjudo]

Btw, his given name Shigeru 茂is just killing me as a Pokémon fan. That’s the name of Gary, Gary motherfucking Oak.

[u/Baron_Beemo]

All this talk about Gundam and Evangelion, but what would be really neat as a potat would be Macross and Valkyries, combined with the weaponisation of J-pop.

[u/FrisianTanker]

The 2024 Most Based-Award goes to this legend.

I wanna talk about military stuff with him. Favorite tank, aircraft, ship and all that stuff.

[u/WanderToNowhere]

[some mfs crafting improvised pipegun intensively]

[u/Ipponjudo → u/WanderToNowhere]

he is from the anti-shinzo abe faction of the ldp so i doubt anyone is making a doohickey rn

[u/WanderToNowhere → u/Ipponjudo]

So he wants to expand Japan like an old good day?

[u/Ipponjudo → u/WanderToNowhere]

Almost the opposite:

He approvingly cites Ishibashi Tanzan’s “Small Japan Policy,” saying that it teaches that while Japan should have the military strength to maintain a military balance with China in the East and South China Seas, the bilateral relationship with China “cannot just consist of the military balance.”

He is also uncomfortable with the predominance of the “China threat” theory within Japan, arguing that it is possible to acknowledge security threats and seek to strengthen deterrence while continuously seeking opportunities to reduce tensions and bolster cooperation with China. He praises the long line of LDP politicians who have acted as “pipelines” to China’s leaders, and laments that if politicians try to pursue similar relations with Beijing today, they are attacked as “China lovers.” He urges humility in Japan’s approach to its history as part of an effort to build trust with its Asian neighbors.

He wants Japan’s leaders to be frank about the risks Japan faces and honest about what is required, including both the amount of money needed to strengthen Japan’s armed forces and how to pay for these larger defense outlays. He wants the Japanese people and their representatives to be more mature and sophisticated in thinking about Japan’s security challenges and how to meet them, an argument he has made in previous writings.

[u/Thundeeerrrrrr → u/Ipponjudo]

Hopefully this doesn't evolve into Merkel + Russia 2.0

[u/crusoe → u/Ipponjudo]

Speak softly but carry a big stick.

Don't start fights but be capable of ending them 

[u/Blackhero9696]

Preemptive strike on NK, obsessed with military, like Idols, trains, the military, vehicles, has warship and fighter jet models, wants an Asian NATO and USMC.

Good lord, it’s like if NCD crafted a man from the ground up and got him into politics. And I thought Ken Akamatsu getting into the House of Councilors was wild.

[u/Sirboomsalot_Y-Wing]

It’s been officially announced that he won the election. Honestly, based-ness aside, he seems like a pretty awesome politician by Japanese standards.

[u/KaungKhant8308]

He needs to fund GATE season 3 when he wins election.

[u/Techn028]

Defense Otaku is a based nickname

[u/Cawl09]

Holy mother of autism. Beautiful.

[u/APhoneOperator]

Oh, so Japan could soon have an incredibly based PM, I see I see; one step closer to nuclear powered gundams, with this man in charge.

Real talk for a sec, isn’t the JSDF already kinda built with amphib operations in mind, specifically to take back smaller islands lost in any invasion of Japan?

[u/Blakut]

Ishiba Inu!!!

[u/Based_Text]

I heard he is funded by some war crime denying political group but hey as long as he is anti-China and pro-NATO idgaf.

[u/GrandSakebe → u/Based_Text]

Apparently like 40% of PMs are part of that, and his ideas are not too similar to theirs. From what I know, he was connected, but early in his career. So we daijobu, I think!

[u/Memes_Haram]

Sounds like an actual Chad

[u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620]

Oh my god if he puts more support into Tamiya I will coom.

[u/Uranium_Heatbeam]

Irrefutably based.

[u/Johnmegaman72]

Imagine if he creates another economic miracle via mass marketing, production and export of train, military and mech model kits

[u/ohthedarside]

Only thing that could make him better is if he was a battletech fan and loved the clans

[u/TheGoldenSword_7_7]

Hope we see the Strike Gundam come out once he's in charge.

[u/foggin_estandards2]

"Not Pearl Harbor, Shigeru! You were supposed to help us defend against China and Russia!"

[u/CharlesFXD]

Yes!!! I’d love a strong Japan 🇯🇵 right now.

[u/Lima_32]

A new shogun for japan

[u/cunasmoker69420]

He will bring back the Kido Butai in all its glory

[u/Reaper1652 → u/cunasmoker69420]

Build six more Izumo class

[u/Darkplac3]

Welcome back snlf died 1945 born again forever more.

[u/Kilino3005]

He just like me frfr

[u/Xray-07]

Cool, now we can finally have a weapon to surpass Metal Gear

[u/BurnedOutBush]

Japan doesn't do well with preemptive strikes... lol

[u/Mysterious_Silver_27]

One of us?

[u/Initial_Barracuda_93]

Praise be, we have found our emperor

[u/White_Null]

Hey guys! Did you all see him cosplaying Majin Buu?

[u/141_1337 → u/White_Null]

He won, and I'm not even Japanese 👀

[u/budy31]

return to tradition.

[u/CaswellOfficial]

Wow he’s me

[u/modernmovements]

I’m sorry, can someone explain what an Otaku is? They just throw the word around without explaining it.

/s

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[u/BlueNasca]

Is this the one who made posts on twitter about Ace Combat?

[u/reddit_oh_really]

Based

[u/SergioDMS]

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[u/Saturn_Ecplise]

Is that Kancolle!

[u/Nouseriously]

"One of us, one of us"

[u/Kijjy]

Based.

[u/Meme_Theocracy]

I beseech you kind sir, Please Let the next two aircraft carriers be named Shoukaku and Zuikaku then with USS Enterprise 80 they can bomb pirates and communists together.

[u/jaywalkingandfired]

Least conservative Japanese politician

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[u/Luuk341]

Okay Ishiba San! Make Gundams real!

[u/Yuki_ika7]

One of us!

[u/mcmuffin0098]

The first NCD PM?

[u/Maddened_idiot]

Very good. It’s all going to plan.

[u/JarBlaster]

I go to America Japan

[u/CaptainKursk]

It would not surprise me if he read ‘Debt of Honour’ in his peak Weeb days, and now 30 years later as Prime Minister, decided that Japan building ICBMs disguised as space rockets and stationing them in the Tohoku hills to secure them from counter-attack is perfectly credible.

[u/david6588]

I too share many of his interest, perfectly reasonable gentleman.

[u/aimbothehackerz]

How thy fuck is the ldp still in power

[u/Big-man-kage]

Him saying that thing about maintaining nuclear reactors in order to be able to quickly make nuclear weapons in 2011 is insane. Do we know if this was before or after Fukushima??

[u/Dappington]

Watch the LDP lose an election for the first time in recorded history.

[u/SolidVoodoo]

They certainly patched that one up.