The narrow-minded leader was making the same
misunderstanding in an international forum as he had done in his own country, believing
that all the people had been waiting for him. It was not going to happen.
Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, delivered his messages of determination
on economic reform and justification of his visit to Yasukuni Shrine in his
keynote speech for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.
The strategy of Abe seemed to have been getting support from the world for his
visit to the shrine by emphasizing a sense of optimism in Japanese economy.
This idea, based on the notion that world economy would not go anywhere without
Japanese economy, did not stand. Wall Street Journal reported a certain
disappointment, saying “he didn’t introduce any new policy.” The most media
spotlighted Abe’s reasoning on his Yasukuni visit, rather than economy issues.
“Japan’s economy is just about to break free from chronic
deflation. This spring, wages will increase. Higher wages, long overdue, will
lead to greater consumption,” said Abe. Japanese media mainly reported that it
was the first time for a prime minister of Japan to deliver keynote speech in
Davos Forum, and that he was bold enough as to make international promise to
decrease corporate tax to a moderate level in international standard.
In Tokyo, Chairman of Bank of Tokyo, Haruhiko Kuroda, showed
an optimistic view about the future of Japanese economy in his press conference
on Wednesday. “Risk of slump is decreasing,” told Kuroda. However, forecast of
private companies on growth rate is quite lower than governmental estimate.
Actual situation of business is not as good as the government stresses.
On Abe’s political behavior putting his ideology over
national interest in foreign relations, the world is not so kind as he might
have expected. “We must lay down rules that promote actions based on the
international law of the sea,” Abe tried to emphasize China’s assertion on its
interest in East China Sea. German international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle,
reported that “Deep scars remain in China and South Korea from Japan’s
militarism during WWII,” and cited a comment of a Chinese speaker at the forum who
expressed the Japanese leader as a “trouble maker.”
Abe keeps on selling his favorite idea called “positive pacifism.”
But his pacifism is to soothe his own ambition to send self-defense force to where
he likes. A man who upholds unilateral change of post-war regime cannot accuse other’s
unilateral change of current situation in East China Sea.
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