3/22/09 Japan’s Historic Mission: Completing Fukuzawa’s Revolution The Forgotten History of Japan and the American System by Mark Calney 1. JAPAN’S HISTORIC MISSION “The relationship between China and Japan is one of common existence or extinction. Without Japan, there would be no China; without China, there would be no Japan. … Under the principle of Pan-Asianism, Japan and China can together develop the natural resources in the West of the Pacific, while under the Monroe Doctrine the United States can unify authority in the East of that ocean. ... By a concerted effort of these three Powers disarmament might some day be effected, and, going one step further, permanent peace of the world secured.” - Sun Yat-sen, The Vital Problem of China (1917) [emphasis in the original] On January 20 th of this year, humanity experienced a deep collective sigh of relief as the evil Dick Cheney and the criminally incompetent George W. Bush, Jr. were removed from control of the White House as Barrack Obama was inaugurated to become the 44 th President of the United States. The eminent threat of a British-directed U.S. attack on Iran, utilizing the loyal services of Cheney, would have widened the war in Southwest Asia to a potential global conflagration, has been stopped for the time being. Now, we find ourselves challenged by the greatest financial and economic collapse in modern history which threatens to plunge the planet into a New Dark Age. President Franklin Roosevelt fought and defeated the fascist movements of the early twentieth-century, which had been organized by the pro-fascist banking-interests of London and its junior partners on Wall Street. Those Wall Street fascists, like Andrew Mellon and J.P. “Jack” Morgan, attempted to overthrow the government of President Franklin Roosevelt, in much the same way that they supported Mussolini’s and Hitler’s illegal rise to power, now have started to sabotage President Obama. What the British Empire fears most is that the U.S. will undergo an “FDR reflex,” where the Administration would repeat the actions of FDR to put the derivative-bloated Wall Street banking-houses through bankruptcy “detox” and take the necessary recovery measures prescribed by Lyndon LaRouche, the only economist to have predicted the current economic crisis. Rather than have the U.S. lead a four-power coalition including Russia, China, and India in the establishment of a FDR-style Bretton Woods financial system proposed by LaRouche, the British are hysterically acting to maintain their usurious stranglehold on the world, through political destabilizations that would plunge the world into “perpetual war.” The return to global empire (the true nature of the term 1 “globalization”), under British direction, necessitates their elimination of all sovereign nations states, especially the United States of America. In order to prevent the kind of strategic partnership between the United States and China, as envisioned by Sun Yat-sen, the U.S. fascists (sometimes referred to as ‘Neocons’ or ‘Neo-conservatives’ in polite company) and their British masters have targeted China for destruction. 1 The strategic policy of the British Empire for more than 200 years has been to prevent the largest concentration of human beings on the planet from obtaining the means of becoming modern. For the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy, that meant preventing American-style revolutions in Asia. It is the reason why the ghost of Sun Yat-sen, who embodied the ideas of the American System, still haunts the residents of Windsor Palace and is an anathema to the lords of Thread Needle Street. Just as the British fascists organized the ascendancy of the military-imperialists into dominance in the Japanese government of the 1920s, with the perspective of carrying out joint military operations against the United States in the Pacific, 2 there is a similar operation underway now to manipulate Japan into a confrontation, including the possibility of a land war, with China. Hence, we had witnessed during the Cheney-Bush Administration the renewed attempts, then under the guise of the “War on Terrorism,” by certain lunatics in London and their stooges in Washington to persuade Japan to The attempts to rearm and deploy Japanese military forces is a direct violation of the of the 1946 Constitution of Japan. The Preface of the Japanese Constitution begins: We, The Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall secure for ourselves and our posterity the fruits of peaceful cooperation with all nations and the blessings of liberty throughout this land, and resolve that never again shall we be visited with the horrors of war through the action of government, do proclaim that sovereign power resides with the people and do firmly establish this Constitution. Article 9 of Chapter II , titled “Renunciation of War,” articulates the intent of the Preface: Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. 2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized. 1 Lyndon LaRouche’s prophetic Strom Over Asia video presentation and subsequent writings, such as Ring Around China: Britain Wants War . 2 During the first quarter of the twentieth century, U.S. military strategists drafted detailed plans for potential war scenarios to be fought against the threats posed by the British Empire (War Plan Red) and the Empire of Japan (War Plan Orange). More on this will be presented later in the report. 2 nullify Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution [see box below] in order to rearm and deploy its Self-Defense Forces. The primary purpose of this paper is to aide in the prevention of such a possibility by shedding light on the potentially tragic flaw exhibited in the thinking of the current Japanese-elites, as well as others, perception of their nation’s historical development in modern times. If one wishes to prevent being manipulated, particularly in actions taken against one’s own interests, the curtain must be drawn back in order to expose the hands and faces of the puppet-masters. This is not always a pleasant or comfortable experience, because it often forces one to question one’s own identity. However, it is increasingly becoming an existential necessity for the nation of Japan to undertake this challenge. In order to adequately expose the puppet-masters, we must provide the true history of America’s relationship to Japan, and the failure of achieving the type of cultural and philosophical revolution which the great Fukuzawa Yukichi understood to be necessary. We begin this report by quoting the world’s foremost economist and strategic thinker, Lyndon LaRouche, regarding Japan’s vital interest: “If one measures population-density in terms of habitable portions of a nation’s land, and its primary resources, it should be clear that Japan can survive only by concentrating on the frontiers of scientific and related progress in productive technologies, and on a growing role as a ‘knowledge-industry’ exporter: a supplier of highest technology machine-tools and related goods to a vast and expanding markets for such goods, especially to the actual, and potential future such markets throughout Asia. “Without such a role in (especially) the Pacific-Indian Oceans rim of Asia, Japan would be inclined to seek its economic and biological survival as a nation, however short-lived, now, as during the 1930s, in establishing controlled spheres of influence carved out of existing nations of the Pacific Rim. The role of European economic conditionalities in impelling Japan into the first Sino- Japanese war and initial occupation of Korea, in 1894-1895, and the economic circumstances of 1927-1931, in promoting Japan into the second Sino-Japanese war, are applicable illustrations of the point.” 3 Evidence of the fact that British manipulation has been adopted as an accepted premise of Japanese “self-determination” is the continued belief, particularly among ruling circles of Japan, that the Russo-Japanese War was a great victory for Japan which marked its entry onto the stage of global powers. For example, Vice Admiral Koda Yoji, the Director General of the Joint Staff Office of the Japanese Defense Agency, wrote in 2005 that, “Japan’s success in the Russo-Japanese War (in implicit contrast to its failure in World War II thirty-five years later) shows that its leaders at the turn of the twentieth century did a much better job than their successors with respect to management of public opinion, goals, alliances, risk assessment, intelligence, sabotage, interservice cooperation, and negotiated war termination.” 4 3 Ring around China: Britain wants War by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.; Executive Intelligence Review, November 14, 1996. [http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/1996/ring_around_china.html] 4 The Russo-Japanese War, Primary Causes of Japanese Success by Vice Admiral Koda Yoji, Naval War College Review, Spring 2005, Vol. 58, No. 2. 3 Such statements are tolerated only by those who have no fundamental understanding of the history behind the creation of the modern nation of Japan. Such a history is not a chronological ordering of “facts.” It is an ongoing, international battle concerning the idea of the ‘Nature of Man’ which informs and affects the institutions of the nation and its population. In fact, it has been the political battle over the ‘Nature of Man’ which created nations – in direct counter-position to the bestial concept of Mankind which is the dominate, cultural matrix found in all empires from Babylon and Rome to the present Anglo-Dutch oligarchy.