You Are National Crisis

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tries to reason his decision of dissolving House of Representatives as for breaking through national crisis. Where is national crisis, anyway? While the people do not realize economic growth enough, Japanese economy shows a moderate recovery as a whole. Although North Korea flew ballistic missiles over Japan, nothing has fallen down on the land. Abe looks like believing that his cheap propaganda still works for public enthusiasm.

Hours after the dissolution of the House on Thursday, Abe explained his cause for the decision. “This is the election about how to defend Japan, how to protect people’s life and property and this happy country, and how to develop the future of the children in this highly aged society rapidly growing,” said Abe. Then, he raised threat of North Korea and low birth rate as two elements of national crisis.

Right after Abe’s remark, social networking service was filled with the words of “You are the national crisis.” Exactly. With wrong recognition of the threat, Abe became the most prominent hardliner in the world against North Korea by concluding diplomatic efforts had come to naught. Abe’s unilateral provocation with argument for harder sanctions pushes North Korea to the edge of accidental discharge. Frequent and often wrong alert of missile coming kept the people scared.

Low birth rate had been a long-term problem of Japanese society before Abe took the office in 2012. What has he done for it for these five years? In 2013, Abe declared that he would eliminate the children waiting for empty slot in nursing school by March 2018. But, the waiting children rather increased and Abe administration announced this June that the time limit would be postponed by three years. Abe has been deteriorating this “national crisis.”

True crisis of this country is the leader who keeps on destroying democracy. While more than one fourth of lawmakers in House of Representatives requested convocation of the Diet, along with the provision of Constitution of Japan, Abe ignored it for months and dissolved the House on the first day of extraordinary session without any discussion of the issues.

The administration is serious about blackmailing the people. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Taro Aso, indicated that the refugees from North Korea in the possible contingency in the peninsula would be shot to death. The administration ignores not only Constitution of Japan but international law. The people probably have to be blackmailed until Article 9 is amended.