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Japan is not caught between the US and China – it’s being systematically hollowed out by both. The US drains its financial resources while China crushes its industries. And Japan’s far-right leadership, trapped by its own political base, keeps choosing policies that accelerate the decline. This is the cold calculus of great power politics where middle powers become sacrifices.
The Japanese right-wing’s block on a female emperor isn’t about tradition—it’s about preserving the monarchy as a controllable symbol. Public opinion is too volatile to guarantee long-term survival. The Emperor’s push for his daughter is a selfish gamble that risks the institution’s future. The real surprise? The right-wing may be the monarchy’s last, best protectors.
Japan’s revamped ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ strategy isn’t a vision—it’s a panic move. With India unreliable, the US rebranding its own command, and China calling out the hypocrisy, Tokyo is clinging to a dead framework. The real story is Japan’s fear of irrelevance as global power dynamics shift.
A new anime uses extreme graphic realism of smoking’s negative effects — yellow teeth, lung cancer, secondhand smoke — as reverse propaganda. By making smoking viscerally repulsive, it weaponizes disgust to do what no lecture can. But does the strategy backfire when viewers are too uncomfortable to watch?