Is there a weirder friendship/alliance to have occurred in history? It's so odd how close these two became considering the state of things just 70 years ago
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>>61984259
we hope to quit actually.
due to the shitty alliance, we are too interfered by American to establish a good relationship with Russia.
>>61984287
French Timurid alliance is best
>>61984324
>>61984259
Stockholm syndrome desu
>>61984259
>friendship
kek
it's just a relation of master and servant
>>61984259
No, that would be USA-Morocco.
Unbroken friendship since 1786.
>>61984426
That's only because 99% of Americans don't know where the fuck Morocco is
Probably because America kept China at bay during the Korean war. Japs hate Koreans, but hate Chinese even more.
Plus Japan and the US underwent a huge exchange of cultures in the 80s, which is why anime, sushi, and Ninendo is so popular here and baseball and American fast food are popular there.
>>61984679
Baseball was popular there since the early XXth century though, not the 80s.
>>61984259
I don't see it weird at all
>US took Japan's right to strenghten their military more than self-defense
>in return, US will instead protect them
>Japan was able to use their funds in other more useful issues like technology and games
Imagine it as the big bully who got wrecked in 2 punches by the professor. He now recieves extra free time in exchange for not disrupting classes anymore
And the bully used that free time to study by himself
>>61984259
france and england are weird tbqf, who kills each other for hundreds of years while still being friends
>>61984259
Somalia and Sweden
>>61984908
Dra åt helvete och dö i en eld ditt jävla kukhuvud
>>61984259
Hellás in N.AT.O., an anti–Russian and anti–Serbian alliance since the U.S.S.R. broke up.
Also, an "ally" backs occupiers of about ‘½ of Kypros.
>>61984259
U.S. destroyed all their current allies in WWII then acted like good goys and propped them up again.
>>61984835
>in 2 punches
Damn right
>>61984972
D-du med
>>61985767
Whoa I know American friendly fire is a bit infamous but that is an outright lie.
>>61984259
>friendship/alliance
Stop making me look bad you stupid fuck.
Repeal Article 9 WHEN
There are a billion Chinese ready to make Japan pay for Nanking. Why Japanese think an American alliance is bad?
>>61985979
Sick of niggers killing their people.
>>61985979
The rapes by your military aren't helping
>odd
Australians don't own dogs?
>>61985725
>occupiers of about ‘½ of Kypros.
it was a prank dude
It's not a friendship.
>1945: Japan nuked, surrenders, US knows it cannot execute Hirohito without causing a massive popular uproar and effectively starting a mass insurgency
>Hirohito kept on as Emperor, but as a "figurehead" under Japan's new US-written constitution
>Like all heads of state, Hirohito knows the figurehead meme is bullshit and that he actually has a huge degree of back channel influence
>Directs Bank of Japan to protect domestic industry, keeps out immigration and the toxic aspects of Western culture
>1980s: Japan becomes second largest country and most technologically advanced country in the world
>Jap automakers decimating American brands
>Jap semiconductors decimating American brands
>1989: Tragedy strikes. Hirohito dead at 87. Akihito takes the throne.
>After this, many things coincidentally start going wrong in Japan
>1990s: Market fundamentalist takes control at BoJ, willfully torpedoes the Japanese economy and eradicates any trace of protectionism; two "lost decades" ensue
>Aum Shinrikyo cult develops, infiltrates the government and police, and absorbs countless powerful officials into its ranks
>AS carries out terrorist attacks with nerve gas in the Tokyo subway, and other places, in order to bring about the apocalypse, dozens dead
>2011: Fukushima exposes endemic disorganization and incompetence across broad swathes of the Japanese government
>2012: Shinzo Abe takes power. Weird guy, by Japanese politicians' standards: loves the TPP, wants to open the borders to mass immigration, constantly "apologizing" and licking Chinese ass over WWII, has taken action to criminalize "hate speech"
>Population in freefall as public suffers lowest fertility rate in the developed world; culture dominated by JPop and waifushit
The US finally won their culture war. What they knew they could get away with in Germany in 1945, they had to wait longer for the Japanese.
>>61986097
*second largest economy
>>61986032
If I were in charge they would be sent to death. Not much ordinary Americans can do about that.
>>61986097
>Abe-sama
>wants open borders to mass immigration
>licking Chinese ass over WWII
R U Fkin Srs Leaf?
>>61986300
That's the reputation all the stories about him seem to build.
>>61985780
Underrated
>>61986097
America is socially a wreck full of violence and riots, they can't win anything on that side since they even can't manage themselves
>>61986387
You realise the current party running Japans government right now is the conservative, nationalistic one?
>>61984259
No really since the U.S. literally occupied Japan for 5 years following the war and helped buildthe current Japanese political system up from scratch.
Probably one of the most successful occupations of a country in history.
>>61988389
Cause no other country has experienced violence and riots in recent history...wait.
Entente Cordiale was weird but pretty impressive
>>61986387
Abe has visited the Yasukuni shrine and remained hardline on immigration and refugees.
Yeh he like TPP and the U.S. but friendly relations with the United States is actually a common trait among Japanese conservatives.
Also Japan does not have the lowest fertility rate, it isn't even the lowest in the Asian developed world.
>>61990727
TPP benefits Japan because it can actually compete in a deregulated market, at least in robotics
It's stil lshot though
>>61984972
Huh? Visste ikke at somalsk var så likt norsk.
>>61986097
Abe is a puppet of the Jewish Neocons.
Is there a weirder friendship/alliance to have occurred in history?
>>61984259
Stockholm syndrome.
>>61984259
Us and france maybe? We've been friends as often as we have been rivals.
>>61991535
kek
You've said it
>>61991686
not even close.
UK and French treat each other as equal, even in a quarrel.
on the other hand Japan and America are not so at all.
They would rather oppose us financial sanctions or military threatens once we ignore their policy or injure their feelings,
>>61990925
Half of Japanese are for TPP, others are against.
The "for" people are concerned with robotics or auto or like that in occupation, "against"people are manual labor or farmars.
Cucked SJW Abe slamed Trump.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/06/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-defends-japan-u-s-security-ties-tpp-slams-naked-nationalism-wsj-interview/#.V4TpXyJcXqA
>>61992750
I am against a trace block with the us for the EU.
US Military instalations and secret agencies were repeatedly over a long time used to allow industrial espionage against german companies.
Also their consumer protection is shit, I dont want to lower our standards.
>>61985850
>Ruined UK and French economies
>Immediatly turned on Russia
>Currently turning on China
Yanks take realpolitick perfiditry to new and exciting levels
I think USA/UK is the weirdest, considering the past relationships.
>>61994117
>Both White
>Both speak English
It's not that weird anon.
>>61994117
wouldn't say its weird at all, spain and france have good relations with their colonies as well despite their past
>>61992161
What do you mean not even close. The fact we're equals and have been pretty much for most of our history means we have always rivalled each other, yet retain very close relations today.
>>61984259
Through history, the relation between Argentina and UK has been a rolling coasting too.
>>61994710
relations were warming until Kirchner, and your new president said he wants a new kind of relationship, we'll see how it works out.
>>61986097
>Population in free fall
I don't see any wrong with that.
>>61994573
>>61992161
>>61991686
what I mean is your guess at the relation between USA und Japan is far from the fact.
