Japanese Lawmaker Advocates for Going to War with South Korea Over Dokdo

This Japanese lawmaker is an outcast within Japanese politics because he has made past statements about going to war with Russia over the Kuril Islands which Russia has occupied since the end of World War II. However, stupid comments like this are a gift to the anti-Japan leftists in South Korea:

Japanese lawmaker Hodaka Maruyama caused a sensation on social media after he recommended Saturday to go to war to claim the Dokdo islets as Japan’s.

“Takeshima, the territory unique to Japan, is occupied by illegal occupants,” he wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday, using the Japanese name for the islets. “How do you get it back by means other than eliminating illegal occupiers by dispatching the Self-Defense Forces in various contingencies?” 

Maruyama wrote the post after a group of Korean lawmakers visited the islets on Saturday. Six lawmakers, including three from the ruling Democratic Party, visited Dokdo and criticized the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games for marking the islets as Japanese territory on its website. 

Korea effectively controls Dokdo, an islet in the East Sea also referred to as Liancourt Rocks, and maintains that there is no territorial dispute as it is Korean territory, historically, geographically and under international law. Japan also claims Dokdo as its territory.

“Look to this lawmaker Maruyama,” wrote a Korean user on Twitter on Sunday. “He thinks that Japan can claim Dokdo by going to war. Remember what it was like back in 1592 – they said there will be no war between Korea and Japan, yet there was. We have to be prepared for war now.”

Joong Ang Ilbo

You can read more at the link, but I always find it amazing how the news media uses random Twitter messages as some kind of justification of what public sentiment is on issues.

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2ID Doc
2ID Doc
5 years ago

Sounds a bit like Geert Wilders over here in the Netherlands. A member of Parliament, but his speeches, tweets and messages are so xenophobic and in some cases flat out racist, he now has a 24 hour protection detail and only shows himself in the Parliment’s Chambers for votes. He associates with absolutely no one else in Parliament and the feeling is understandably mutual. In short, he is a crackpot leader of a crackpot party that has a voice in Parliament, I honestly do like the fact that we have about 10 major parties and dozens of minor parties.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
5 years ago

except Western and Scandinavian Europe have committed national/cultural suicide and anyone who points that out is labeled an extremist/xenophobic/racist (islam/moslem is not a race).
https://gellerreport.com/2019/09/jihadi-killer-high-fives-fellow-mualim.html/

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/08/second-swedish-municipality-which-took-in-too-many-welfare-dependent-migrants-faces-financial-ruin/

Fighting Man
Fighting Man
5 years ago

Except he is not just an outcast. Many like that dude in Japanese government clamoring for building up Japanese military and going to war with Korea.

Japan has a fair share of crazy rightists who are increasingly becoming louder with more influence.

Like this Japanese conservative magazine which wants Japan to counter South Korea.

https://www.zakzak.co.jp/soc/news/190827/pol1908270002-n1.html

Fighting Man
Fighting Man
5 years ago

Forgot to add that Japanese magazine wants military action against Korea, and they want to put Japanese military on Tsushima Island to ‘defend’ Japan against a supposedly a dangerous and threatening South Korea.

setnaffa
5 years ago

Don’t worry, “Fighting Man”, drugs wear off. Just lie in a cool dark room with a cold compress and the evil ninja ghosts will fade away…

Kravata
Kravata
5 years ago

Flyingsword… I am not surprised about you spreading bullshit yet again and this time about Europe, go back to 4chan you inbreed.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
5 years ago

Not spreading anything, factual news articles about actual events.

Kravata
Kravata
5 years ago

Again bullshit from you, read again the articles you post. Doesn’t back up for alarmist xenophobic retardation. Hur dur. Why dont you complain about the US bombing the shit out the middle east, arming those jihadi fucks in Lybia and Syria and before that Afghanistan.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
5 years ago

Yawn

setnaffa
5 years ago

Flyingsword, please don’t feed the trolls.

Kravata
Kravata
5 years ago

setnaffa, calling someone a troll… lol

Hypocrite.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
5 years ago

Yeah, my mistake, sorry. https://youtu.be/lwfuUyTMpVY

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