US vassal state of Japan getting uppity with Russia

Editor's note: Japan and Russia are still technically at war not signing a peace agreement since after the end of WWII in 1945 when the Soviet Union took control of the Kuril Islands. Although historically belonging to Japan before WWII the Russians have held the islands ever since. The biggest reason Japan wants the Kuril Islands back is because that region around the Sakhalin islands is some of the most fertile fishing grounds in the world. Financially and economically the islands would have a large significance for Japan. With this recent move by Japan ordered by their US masters to support NATO in support of Ukraine against Russia likely means Japan will never have the Kuril islands returned to them. Japan now wants to join the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU) headquartered at a US base in the German town of Wiesbaden. This is the same city of Wiesbaden where the US military are running a "secret command center" operating since 2022. Here is Japan joining the "axis powers" in Europe just like the Japanese did during WWII with Germany. Then there is the idea Japan needs to counter China, Russia and North Korea. How could Japan be countering China when there are more than one million Chinese living in Japan with another million Chinese expected into the country with Japan lifting visa restrictions? With Japan being a US vassal state and wanting to cash in on weapon export sales and with Japan having weak leadership this is what you would expect.

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Japan Says It Wants to Join a NATO Command for the Support of Ukraine

By Mari Yamaguchi and Mayuko Ono | April 8, 2025

TOKYO — Japan expressed interest Tuesday in participating in the NATO command for its Ukrainian mission based in Germany in what would be a major boost in ties with the largely European alliance.

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani announced his country's interest during talks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Tokyo. After providing the war-torn country with defense equipment and support, Japan now wants to join NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, or NSATU, headquartered at a U.S. base in the German town of Wiesbaden.

Details of the mission, including the possibility of sending any Japan Self Defense Force members to Wiesbaden, were still to be discussed. But any Japanese cooperation was not expected to involve combat, in line with what has been Tokyo's post-World War II tradition of limiting its military's role.

Nakatani said Japan wants to further deepen security cooperation with NATO and that participation in the NSATU mission would help Tokyo learn lessons from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"Both Japan and NATO face many challenges and our security environment has become increasingly more severe," Nakatani said.

Japan has said that Russia's war on Ukraine underscores that security risks in Europe and Asia are inseparable, and Tokyo has sought closer ties with NATO while also joining the United States in expanding defense ties with other friendly nations in the Indo-Pacific.

Rutte told Nakatani that China, North Korea and Russia are stepping up their military exercises and their cooperation, "undermining global security and that means what happens in Euro-Atlantic matters in the Indo-Pacific and vice versa."

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