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The Japan has no plans to develop nuclear weapons. But a serious crisis of confidence would be open if the United States... and the France did not support a policy of extreme firmness towards the North Korea. Such diplomatic conjunction does not happen often. For a reason which is the categorical imperative that any State must submit, the safety of its territory, the Japan expected lot and the United States and the France. Everything indicates that these two countries would a considerable advantage to respond with all the determination that they are able. This is in addition an equally outstanding and favorable circumstance. New political man tending us pole to save the failed nuclear non-proliferation policy is imposed in a few weeks by a capacity out of the ordinary opportunities to bond the good standing the so-called lucky: the immediate and total of the accidental operation. It is called Shinzo Abe.

The position of Prime Minister of the Government of Japan, Abe was succeeded on September 26 to Junishiro Koizumi, the politician without doubt the most charismatic and the most unusual of the Japan since the end of the second war world one of the most effective also. In five years, he has changed fundamentally the exercise of the authority rules, requiring the majority party to break with the practices of another age (can the UMP take seed!). A Tokyo person did much of the future of Abe, who came to power with a sulphurous reputation of "Falcon". Its first public interventions were marked by moderation, respect for the prerogatives of others (for example of the independence of the Central Bank), an analysis of the political and economic situation. World Chinese leaders not to there were not. For several years, they have understood, think Abe, any economic interest that it would be for them and the Japanese closer finally politically. The unthinkable has happened. They agreed with alacrity to receive the new Prime Minister in Beijing, some sort of future friend. Early last month, Hu Jintao and Abe agreed to build a "strategic" relationship between the two major powers in Asia and "mutually beneficial" according to statements made to the "Financial Times" by Shinzo Abe (1).

Japanese public opinion, the event has an impact that we have no idea in France. Went to liberty, the Japanese people is characterized by an extraordinary and touching goodwill. He was deeply bruised so many misunderstanding in its regard. This is a country which, since 1972, year of the restoration of diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Beijing, has continued to apologize and to show its desire for peace. This is a country that has contributed to the development of infrastructure in China providing colossal aid of the order of $ 30 billion, and which received in return, the cries of hatred of a eternal contrast!

Referring with indecent assault to his own emotional experience, responsible for Cultural Affairs of the Embassy of the Japan in Paris, Fumihiko Yamada, expressed with eloquence and restraint, during a lecture given on 24 October, the extraordinary level of frustration felt by the vast majority of the Japanese people. Welcome in this regard the lucid patience which evidence the Japanese ruling elite and this fact since the day where the Chinese carried out a first nuclear test. His reaction has always been: "we do not fear you, because we know that at the bottom of you, you Chinese know that the day will come when you need well recognize that our common destiny is to hear us." Koizumi himself, who did not hesitate to defy the Chinese, is registered in this line: "the development of China for us is not a threat, it is a chance."

This brave course contrasts with the indignation and horror, caused by the explosion of the North Korean bombs, not to mention seven missile launches conducted in July in the sea of the Japan by the dictator Kim Jong-il. Abe does not mince his words. Which it considers to be essential is a strict implementation of resolution 1718 of the United Nations. The danger, of course, never openly expressed is that the United States, obsessed as they are by Iran's ambitions, benefit not in full of the opportunity that gives Pyongyang to inflict a severe lesson (against Tehran!) to a country seeking to develop atomic weapons. To apply the penalties provided for, should be that China would agree to board boats victualling the North Korea. Probably only an indomitable determination of the United States could convince her.

Abe said that may be, if it wants, to bend Kim Jong-il by diplomatic means if it is clear and the case where he and his regime "want to resort to force, it is their own fate they would stake" (passage of the interview contained in the electronic version but not in the paper version). Who sees that by bringing back the dictator to the reason it lays the groundwork for an agreement Pan under the aegis of the United States with the active support of the major European powers including the France de facto In a Conference on 14 November, the Ambassador of the Japan in Paris, Yutaka Iimura, launched an appeal in this sense to Jacques Chirac. "I insist, we want to avoid at all costs in the region, it is a nuclear one-upmanship." How to correct an error often repeated in the French media: the Japan is now prepared to consider to appeal of nuclear weapons. This is a gross falsehood. As it is quickly forgotten the unspeakable disaster of atomic bombing when it did not have to have!

That said, but it is quite another matter, Shinzo Abe entered the revision of article 9 of the Constitution according to which the Japan is prohibited any use of force to promote its sovereignty at the top of its programme for the coming six years. This article is already interpreted so broadly that it has lost its original meaning. Nevertheless that the Japanese soldiers in Iraq do not have the right to make, even to respond. What is the Prime Minister, is "take account of the reality" and allow the Japan to its role in international peacekeeping operations.