/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>1709765
What the hell does Japan have to do with Iraq?

>>1709792
UN member nation

>>1709792

Indeed.
Last time I checked JSDF could barely shoot their way out of a paper bag.

>>1709792
I believe they have troops there.

>>1709792
The Japanese are actually located in my mothers city of birth. They're doing a good job, and they're also very kind, giving job opportunities in Japan to medical students. A relative of ours is now living in Tokyo, studying medicine there, to become a doctor in Japan.

They're clearly in need of doctors and doing something about it while helping the Iraqis.

>>1709768
>>1709776
Sauce on this?

>>1709792
>March 5, 2006 - The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) reports that the Japanese Foreign Ministry is providing the animated series "Captain Tsubasa", about a soccer-playing boy, to the Iraqi Media Network for free. Twenty-six Japan Ground Self-Defense Force water tankers in southern Iraq have been decorated with giant decals of Captain Tsubasa. A Foreign Ministry official predicts Iraqi children "will be filled with dreams and hopes by watching the show, and boost pro-Japanese sentiment even more." (Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo), 3/5/06)

Doesn't having a "Self Defense Force" deployed in a foreign country kind of contradict the name? They should change it.

Then again, I said the same about the National Guard.

>>1709846
I believe your forgetting the fact that Japan is and has always been a militaristic country, and no one, including the Japanese is under the impression that the name is anything besides a 'necessary evil'.

Besides, Iraq was a buy one get one freebie war to begin with.

>>1709864
>buy one get one freebie war

I'm pretty sure both wars cost a shitload of cash.

>>1709837
I do hope it is devoid of pro-heretical elements, like characters praying to shinto devils.

I remember watching a news report years ago about Japanese troops being deployed to Iraq.

Had about the same atmosphere as a school bus trip.

>>1709864
their constitution prevents them from ever doing anything other than having conferences about what to do if godzilla attacked

>>1709875
They did, but the Afghanistan war and Iraq war would have never occurred without 9/11. George Bush realized Americans were still pissed even after crushing the Taliban, and decided to use the leftover emotion to topple a dictator controlling a place that happened to be sitting on top of an important resource.

>>1709864
Except that Japan's only in Iraq because the U.S. gave the okay. Batshit crazy nationalists notwithstanding, most Japs like that they don't have to worry about maintaining a real military, because AMERICA will back them up.

I believe they are unarmed by the way, which, considering the security situation in Iraq, means that they have to be protected by American troops.

>>1709895
Shit, I can't help it.

Sauce?

>>1709913
Midori No Hibi

>>1709913
Perhaps the little girl on his right hand might have tipped you off.

Midori Days

>>1709895
True, but that's being on the defensive, and even that is coming under fire with increased pressure (political and economical) for the United States to get out of international affairs, which leaves Japan the meat in a China/N. Korea sandwich.

As much as I hate to admit it, the US' weakening economy is going to screw more than them.

>>1709864
those are some mighty olde animus

>>1709946
so... the americans leave japan to itself, and their somewhat justifiable fears cause Japan to build up a 'defensive military'. the kim keeps putting the nuclear pressure on the japs, they finally say fuck it and topple the bastard, marking a violation of their agreement with the united nations.

Japanese company mascots are great

oh customs-kun -__-;

>>1709880
From what I hear Captain Tsubasa is fuck all popular in Saudi Arabia. If it passes there, a relatively more lax place like Iraq would have no problems

>>1709986
>relatively more lax place like Iraq

Er, weren't they executing people in public spots stadiums not that long ago?

>>1709978
I'm perhaps assuming that the light financial spanking the UN gives Japan for opposing a clear threat to their existence will be helped their old ally, the United States, who refuses to follow the sanctions?

China would be royally pissed at both the US and Japan for various reasons.

>>1710008
That was Afghanistan.

Yokkaichi city mascot

>>1710026
Yes, also Iraq recently was one of the most secular states in the middle east. Saddam was a horrible bastard, but he did shit for political and not religious reasons and kept the fundamentalist nutjobs firmly under his heels. Ergo the average Iraqi could live with and often enjoyed things that people like Saudis who grew up under a straitlaced theocracy couldn't

>>1709992
STEEL BALL DA DA DA

>>1709946
What you people don't realize is that the US economy isn't weakening by itself. Japan's is weakening, China's, Europes's, eveyone is weakening with varying degrees of hurt.

>>1710023
The United States is going to have to rely on China if it wants to escape the recession still a superpower. If it comes between siding with China or Japan, the latter is boned.

>>1710064

I really don't want this thread into /n/ shit but he kept sunni and shiites apart because he was a horrible bastard.

The fact that these ethnic groups went apeshit at each other when he lost power proved just how effective his order through terror was.

Or then again, it could be an ill-fated attempt at a military venture for humanitarian reasons. Rich countries across the board have common history in trying to help the poor in various ways, and this is frankly just as succesful as pumping money into Zimbabwe.

Call me a wanker, but if the yanks had stopped with Afghanistan, no one important woul'd've given two shits about the whole affair.

>>1710101
That and Japan hasn't fully recovered from the 90's "crash" when they went from playing catch up after the war to normalizing with global standards. After pulling double digit growth from the 50s to the 90 and they suddenly flat lining to the global average from 92 onwards and now plummeting. Gotta suck

>>1710116
Being a superpower is less reliant on one's economy than you might think.

They still haven't made my Koizumi anime.

I CRY INJUSTICE

>>1710120
>Rich countries across the board have common history in trying to help the poor in various ways