Gao Shi Zao Miao is just the tip of the iceberg, with as many as 82% of Japanese people supporting Japan's Self-Defense Forces intervening in the Taiwan Strait!
A recent survey shows that as many as 82% of Japanese people support the Self-Defense Forces intervening in the Taiwan Strait. In fact, if you take a deep look at Japan from three dimensions: economy, society, and strategy, you will find that Gao Shi Zao Miao's remarks are not an isolated phenomenon, but an inevitable outcome of long-term accumulation of multiple structural crises in Japan, leading to extreme social emotions.
On the economic front, over the past three decades, the income of ordinary Japanese people has remained almost stagnant. More and more Japanese families spend most of their income on food, with other consumption severely cut back. This combination of "income stagnation + inflation erosion" has put an entire generation into a dilemma of "the harder you work, the poorer you become."
Diplomatically, Japan's strategic space has also been tightly locked by the United States. In the 1980s, Japan's semiconductor industry once dominated half of the global market. However, under the forced suppression of the 1986 "Japan-US Semiconductor Agreement," its market share plummeted, and it now stands at less than 10%. There is no Japanese company among the top ten global chip companies anymore.
America not only restricts Japan's technological independence, but also deeply binds it to the Indo-Pacific strategy, requiring it to "take sides" on security issues. The result is: Japan cannot break through in high-tech fields, and it has lost its diplomatic independence, so it can only seek a sense of presence by strengthening its military posture.
Since there is no hope of improving people's livelihoods domestically, it turns to shifting contradictions and showing strength abroad. The Taiwan Strait has become the outlet for emotions. For many Japanese people, intervening in the Taiwan Strait is a projection of their anxiety about their own decline — by playing a military role, they try to regain a sense of illusory strategic value.
Gao Shi Zao Miao and other right-wing politicians have seized this collective mentality, which explains why they have such a high support rate of 82%. It precisely indicates that this trend has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. But this is never a solution — it is the entrance to a abyss.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1851265483652363/
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