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Former ambassador to U.S. calls for Japan to take risk in order to gain

 

At a meeting at ruling Liberal Democratic Party headquarters on July 22, a former Japanese ambassador to the United States said, gThe best option for Japan is a high-risk, high-return approachh in developing Japan-U.S. relations.

 

Kato Ryozo, who served as ambassador to the U.S. from shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 to May this year, made these remarks during his lecture on gThe U.S. political situation and Japan-U.S. relationsh before the defense-related panels of the LDP.

 

Then he immediately added, gI am not saying that Japan should immediately take part in direct military operations and have certain casualties.h

 

gWe should try to avoid war, but at the same time a picturesque Kantian world does not exist. In reality, this world can sometimes be fierce like Hobbes said. Somebody must take up the role of controlling it, and the United States has done just that,h said Kato, praising the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

-Akahata, July 24, 2008

 



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