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The Nippon Kaigi - or Japanese Conference in English - is a somewhat taboo subject in Japan. The nationalist club contains very high profile politicians and even has as its honorary chairman the current prime minister. Is this organisation really a secret elite club as some media suggest? Host Timothy Langley and Michael Cucek dig in. Japanese Conference Website (Japanese): http://www.nipponkaigi.org/ Japan’s Conservative Nippon Kaigi Lobby: Worth Worrying About?: http://atimes.com/2016/07/japans-conservative-nippon-kaigi-lobby-worth-worrying-about/ Subscribe to the Langley Esquire YouTube channel for more weekly videos! http://www.youtube.com/langleyesquire Tokyo on Fire is also available on: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tokyo-on-fire!/id981400702?mt=2 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/langleyesquire To learn more about Langley Esquire, visit our website: http://www.langleyesquire.com
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Dark5 brought me here
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Racist communist-globalist propaganda go fuck yourselves parasite.
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Shinto is the original religion of Japan and i see nothing wrong with this group. They just want to go back to their traditions.
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Nippon Kaigi --> revived/ressurected Black Dragon Society with support from the ninkyo dantai
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an excellent overview on Japanese politics! As usual
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Our new Defense Minister - Tomomi Inada is also a member. Michael I wonder what you think of the Heritage Foundation analogy - also a bit secretive as to whom is a member etc. That directionally to me seems a closer analogy than Knights Templar, the Masons. No funny hats or secret hand shakes from what I have seen in my private little research so far
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Michael - would have been useful to call out that there are multiple honorary chairmen and a large number vice chairmen/women of NK. Made it sound like only Abe was it. Also you can go into the Nippon Kaigi homepage and into their video section and see a whole list of filed speeches etc. Some rants on Northern Terriories, Takeshima, Senkaku., etc. Abe is in that section of ther site but he only has a 4 minute speech from 2012. Suggests that he had not been back to speak in 4 years. Also there are a large number of DP and other opposition leaders in this club and some in these honorary leadership roles. For me - this is roughly equivalent to The Heritage Foundation - the US conservative think tank/club that talks about conservative agenda items like family values, Christianity. national security, etc. NK talks about family values, adjusting the role of the Emperor to something closer to Queen Elizabeth, talks a lot about patriotism which they see as a good thing and associate that with the early Meiji period (not nationalism but patriotism). Where it goes off the rails is when some of the members get into revisionist history topics but was not clear to me whether this was NK taliing or the individuals.
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While not much of the Nippon Kaigi's agenda may have been implemented as yet, Prime Minister Abe's position as honorary chairman surely indicates that he has some sympathy with it, to say the least. Given Abe's obstinacy in pushing his pet projects, that surely indicates the importance of knowing exactly what the NK are advocating?
Likewise, the constitution - while of course the Japanese (now) have every right to amend it how they want, the devil is in the details. The LDP draught does not inspire confidence in the future of democracy in Japan. I think there are many people here who are not opposed to amendment per se, but very reluctant to see it carried out by the present government. -
OK maybe less powerful than they're sometimes portrayed, but a little more insight into why they're so secretive might be in order. And we never got an expansion of "aspects that are really negative" (~6:00) - there are some, aren't there?