In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.
Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
I do think that Japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.
Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.
I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.
I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity?