Looking on Wikipedia, a few European countries have bases for training purposes.

I mean, either of those could work! I was thinking of this though.

“I imagine the veterans of those organizations looking at post-October 7 repression in places like Germany & the U.S. with the "first time?" meme face.”

This face 🥴 or this one 🤔 or perhaps another …?

Does any other country have military bases in the USA?

You are absolutely right. If Japan were to somehow cast off the yoke of the US they would back to doing things independently in the Philippines, Korea, Kamchatka, and the Kurils. No one cares though because it's all the same business with different nationalism attached.

I have a Japanese friend who has an entire legacy story about the Hito family name and how it is of indigenous Filipino origin and descent. Japan wrecked and assimilated Ainu culture as well.

I first found out about the US occupation through the manga Ayako (which I probably should warn is a pretty disturbing read), that mentions some different incidents where, after a bunch of government workers were laid off, people were killed in some acts of sabotage, and the blame were put on communists and union members, who were later proven innocent, so none of that is suspicious...

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/the-three-big-rail-mysteries-that-defined-japans-summer-of-1949/

Well, like I said it is an SDF base and I consider all SDF to be US military. There is no Japanese independence or independent military force without duplicitous ties to the US military. The SDF ramping up its offensive capabilities and building battlecruisers with sea-to-land missiles is framed politically as "less reliance on the US military," but I am sure the US is giving Japan a big thumbs up to ramp up all military spending. Any Japanese military operation is a US-endorsed one.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-us-military-related-rapes-deaths-okinawa/

I haven't been following things for a couple years, but I think the "no military" thing is mostly propaganda considering they literally have an overseas military base in Djibouti. & whatever they were previously restrained from doing was largely undone by Shinzo Abe, which is one of the reasons him getting taken out like that was hilarious & good. I expect the podcast I posted earlier would probably have a good episode about it, but I don't know for sure (listened to some episodes a while back & only recently remembered it exists).

I didn't know how to upload images on here back then, but judging by this & other factors I think Japan's status is pretty similar to Germany's: maybe it's a U.S. vassal & maybe it isn't, but it was a colonial power before becoming one & has remained an imperialist power since WW2 thanks to massive U.S. investment. The U.S. also was happy to work with the "former" fascists who filled important government positions postwar (despite a few show trials) in both countries.

Not sure what my point was anymore. I guess I think if U.S. hegemony disappeared tomorrow, anyone expecting Japan to stop being evil would be wrong.

Also interesting: the New Left-based guerrilla organizations which took up armed struggle against the Japanese & (West) German states from within had strong ties to Palestinian guerrillas & have been subject to decades of right-wing attacks framing them as anti-Jewish fanatics. I imagine the veterans of those organizations looking at post-October 7 repression in places like Germany & the U.S. with the "first time?" meme face.

I haven't read a ton but the anti colonial stuff I've read about Japan is interesting in often it doesn't fit Japan into colonizer or colonized but describes Japan as a vassal or client state of the US. and it's not unheard of for Japanese Politicians to describe it as a neo feudal relationship with the term zokkoku

Because America kinda saw Japan's military power and wanted to capture it so they have greater control over the Pacific. So rather than economic extraction Japan financially benefits from being a vassal state of the US. Because functionally it's a country who will fight for the US. Hence why it gets described as more a neo feudal relationship than one that is like a colony from the age of imperialism.

I don't know enough to say either way. But I usually just call it a vassal of the US.

I don't really know more, but Japan basically has no military outside of the special defense force which is basically another wing of the US military as Japan is required to assist the US in all military operations in the region (and vice versa, but its all an extension of US imperialism). And now the SDF is trying to ramp up its offensive capabilities rather than be purely defensive and rely on the US. It seems to me to be a foothold for the US to strike from Japan with Japanese money and aid.

"Shut up! Isn't England America too!"

Japanese satire is just on another level

Ok never mind, he did identify himself as a fascist in this 2013 interview: https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2013/12/26/toyama-koichi-interview_n_4504650.html

I'm not sure where the connection to fascism came from. The only source I could find that links him to it is dead: https://www.wired.com/2007/04/tokyo-governor-/

Looking at the Wayback Machine, it doesn't seem like Koichi identified himself as a fascist contrary to what Wikipedia claims. He seems more closer to being anarchist to me, especially with his nihilist views.

Japan will be the first country to achieve total Communism

No I ain't using "(random letter)/"

Rural depopulation is a big mood. Land where I live is real expensive, combined with lack of job prospects and shitty internet so online stuff is hard too rural life is quite disadvantageous compared to moving to urban slums.

Rural areas are getting corporatized af, if u want to do farming u have to get big af by having the shittiest conditions for animals and sustainable heavy machine intensive farming. Even then shits pays horrible.

At least where I live there are a couple kinda of people who live rurally old small time farmers who r just scraping by, rich people who pay for the luxury of living rurally, rural people who commute to a larger pop area or work online to subsidize living rurally and the occasional ag corpo.

they could say everyday, instead. or -i was thinking- regular feels better but that word has some semantic issues too. maybe the term i'm looking for is "real people"

I guess they mean non-celebrities and non-influencers.

Normal?

May, 1989

You literally support the death of innocent people

it's pretty impressive that the US can claim to be threatened by its suzerain state

Now let me send you a post mocking you for not liking what someone is assuming about you. I'll even claim it's just rhetorical and then misgender you and call you weak minded. Just like a mirror.

Then I'll make publics posts about it trying to be the better person. While you still misgender me after """apologizing,""" because you're a spineless coward leftoid